Animal Farm Anticipation Guide Responses 1. All people are created equal. I disagree‚ because I do not believe that everyone is created equal. Some people are born with disadvantages in the social field‚ while others are blessed with almost every characteristic that our modern society considers “perfect”. The socially disadvantaged people have to go through their entire lives dealing with judgement from everyone‚ and it is not their fault. I do believe that at birth‚ everyone is completely
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The thought experiment offers a way of deducing just principles that free and rational persons would choose if they were not able to know what position they would occupy in life. The principles are chosen behind a veil of ignorance that prevents the participants from knowing particular information about themselves. Rawls believes this would lead to fair results as participants are unable to choose
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true in reality. So‚ what is the real justice in the reality? Question 2: In Rawls’ principle 1‚ the original position is the appropriated initial status quo which insures that the fundamental agreements reached in it are fair. How to make sure that the parties in the original positions are equal? What character should we evaluate when we consider these parties are in the original positions?
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I – Utilitarianism/Consequentialism A – Definition: The greatest good for the greatest number of people; sacrifices are OK B – Justifications: Life is a pre-requisite to ethics Bostrom1 Continuity is as important to our commitment to the project of the future of humanity as it is to our commitment to the projects of our own personal futures. Just as the shape of my whole life‚ and its connection with my present and past‚ have an interest that goes beyond that of any isolated experience
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Types of Softball Players If somebody asks a softball player what position they play‚ they will most likely tell them more then one. Most softball players play many different positions. Some have played all of them in their lifetimes. Each of the nine positions on the field are different in many ways‚ but some have many similar characteristics. The three main categories of softball players are outfield‚ infield‚ and pitcher/catcher. Everyone has probably played outfield at least once in their
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needs before considering others. Because humans are only self-serving‚ John Rawls’ theory of “The Original Position” is the best way to create a better society with more equality. In terms of society‚ equality means that the gap‚ wealth-wise‚ between the rich and the poor is not drastic‚ but rather‚ the “average amount of wealth is lower.” In order to achieve this theory of “The Original Position‚” Rawls rightfully claims that people must have a ‘veil of ignorance’ when designing the new society because
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President sheds light on the method through which the holiday of Thanksgiving was established as a national holiday. Hale believed that by institutionalizing the day‚ it would help to unite the Nation and to provide an American custom. Using Lincoln’s position and the general societal approval as her main points‚ she establishes the basis for her argument‚ and pleads her case to the President—the only person capable of making Thanksgiving a set holiday. Hale spends the majority of her letter to “discreetly”
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John Rawls’ has a political conception of justice that comes from “fundamental intuitive ideas regarded as latent in the public political culture.” This political conception of justice should have the hope of “gaining the support of an overlapping consensus‚” which is “a consensus in which it is affirmed by the opposing religious‚ philosophical‚ and moral doctrines likely to thrive over generations in a more or less just constitutional democracy.” The overlapping consensus on the conception of
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economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are…reasonably expected to be to everyone’s advantage.” (Rawls‚ 1971) He believed that “taking up this point of view‚ we are to imagine ourselves in the position of free and equal persons…” (Freeman‚ 2012) Honesty - His original position‚ a feature of the “justice as fairness” concept‚ “is designed to be a fair and impartial point of view that is to be adopted in our reasoning about fundamental principles of justice.” (Freeman‚ 2012)
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