yes Flashcards
what is social justice?
how can society be just/unjust
how can the state legitimately coerce?
what is ideal theory?
idea principles that should guide society
who conceptualizes justice as fairness and who conceptualised justice as entitlement?
justice as fairness -> Rawls
justice as entitlement -> Nozick
what is the conception of justice as ‘the right’ vs ‘the good’?
the right -> means/procedure (set of principles)
the good -> ends/utility/happiness
how are justice and morality related?
justice is a subset of morality (some things are morally good but not a part of justice)
what is Hayek’s view on justice?
- no such thing as social justice -> category mistake
- only people can be just/unjust (vs. society)
- market on its own will produce fair outcomes (vs. state action of ‘justice’)
what is Rawl’s view on justice?
- can only be just if people act without self-interest sp -> principles of justice should be chosen behind a veil of ignorance
- hypothetical contract/consent under the veil of ignorance > actual consent w/o veil of ignorance
- would end up choosing:
- basic liberties for all
- b inequalities are still under conditions of fair equality of opportunity
- a inequalities benefit the worst off (incentive) (difference principle)
what is the veil of ignorance?
- no knowledge of ascryptive characteristics (social position and talent)
- no knowledge of own conception of the good (values)
what is Nozick’s view on justice?
- justice = protect private property (holdings)
- freedom = being able to do what you want with those holdings
- seperatness of persons (recognize a person’s talent and achievements as their own) -> so no taxation
- must own something justly through acquisition, transfer or rectification
what is the desert view on justice?
getting what one deserves
- follows logic of the market - based on tastes
- choices (e.g. effort) makes a difference
- natural talent: arbitrary (doesn’t count/unfair)
What is the general and brief republican view on liberty?
freedom: self-governing political community (vs. despotism)
What is the general and brief liberal view on liberty?
freedom: protection of property of individuals (vs. interference of others)
What is the general and brief idealist view on liberty?
freedom: autonomous, follows on desires and beliefs (internal forces)
what is Berlin’s negative liberty?
freedom: minimum space free from interference (coercion = deliberately inflicted by humans) for individuals
what is Berlin’s positive liberty?
- autonomy = possibility of self-mastery of
2. higher (universal rational) and lower self (immediate pleasures)
how does Berlin see positive liberty being problematic?
can lead to totalitarianism (despotism) or self-abnegation
- if allow for divided (lower/higher) self -> you may think someone else knows better than yourself what is better for you (since higher self rationality is universal) and can separate your higher vs lower self (whereas you can’t) -> totalitarianism
- fictions of autonomy: social encasement -> pursuit of unattainable full autonomy -> desire for recognition/status/community -> forfeit of freedom
- if not totalitarianism then self-abnegation: eliminate lower-self completely -> “retreat into the inner citadel” -> self-effacing (not freedom)
what is the difference between effective and formal freedom?
effective -> capacity to do it
formal -> no law prohibits you from doing it
what is the difference between ‘freedom as autonomy’ and ‘freedom as executing the will’?
freedom as autonomy: is there a true and authentic self?
-> dangerous by legitimating collective higher self
freedom as executing the will: capability?
what is the difference between ‘freedom as pol participation’ and ‘freedom from law’
freedom as pol participation: freedom when we make our own laws -> non-domination (republicanism)
freedom from law: freedom when the law ends (liberal)
what is Pettit’s view on liberty? (republicanism)
- republicanism
- new type of liberty: non-domination from arbitrary mastery (vs law)
what is Dworkin’s view on equality? (luck egalitarianism)
luck egalitarianism
- argues against welfare; for market economy
- balance utility and equality -> tolerate less than perfect equality to improve average utility
- “hypothetical auction” to determine what is more valuable to who + hypothetical insurance scheme that if inequality is based on bad luck (vs. bad choices) then can share
- option vs brute luck
- so ambition sensitive but endowment insensitive
what is the difference between option luck and brute luck
option luck: choices (that may turn out bad)
brute luck: no choice (that may turn out bad)
what are other forms of equality than just redistribution?
- recognition (social relations) (feminism, self-respect, community)
- positional goods (goods that can’t be redistributed (e.g. uni education)
what is utilitarian?
maximising total utility (aggregative effect focus)