Critically evaluate Dworkin ’s and Habermas ’s approach to civil disobedience. The following essay will attempt to evaluate the approach taken by Dworkin and Habermas on their views of civil disobedience. The two main pieces of literature referred to will be Dworkin ’s paper on Civil Disobedience and Nuclear Protest ’# and Habermas ’s paper on Civil Disobedience: Litmus Test for the Democratic Constitutional State. ’# An outline of both Dworkin ’s and Habermas ’s approach will be given ‚ further
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Technology‚ Society and Culture Week 2‚ 7/14/2013 – 7/21/2013 Chapter 1.1.3 David Edgerton’s “The Shock of the Old: Production” 1.3: ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES 1.3.1: Philosophy and Human Values IAN BARBOUR In this selection taken from the author’s Gifford Lectures‚ philosopher Ian Barbour provides a concise primer on modern ethical theory stressing its application to issues involving technology. The two main schools of thought in ethical theory are: A. Consequentialist B. and Deontological
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1. G.A. Cohen’s “camping trip” thought experiment [see text‚ chap 14.6] is designed to show why socialism is more desireable than capitalism. But it also (indirectly) supports Rawls’s “Justice as Fairness” against libertarian market-driven models based on entitlement claims and property rights. • (i) Analyze Cohen’s essay‚ drawing comparisons/contrasts with Rawls’s egalitarianism and Nozick’s/Hosper’s libertarianism. • (ii) If you were given the choice – from outside the Original Position
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well as the justice’s point of view according the truth. There are number of reasons why I am interested to analyze the term of justice in this second essay. One of them is that it is a challenging issue to discuss. To support the essay‚ I am using John Rawls’s theory of fairness. The first issue to discuss is the term of justice according to Creon. In the play of Antigone‚ two blood brothers‚ Polyneicies and Eteocles battled. Polyneiceis attacked his state because he felt that he deserved to lead
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for a Political Conception of justice‚ Rawls argues for the importance of a conception of primary goods as the basis for the respect of equal persons. Rawls argues that a well laid our political conception of justice will “ensure to the extent that is humanly possible to do so that the political process – that is‚ not only the right to vote‚ but also the opportunity to hold public office and influence political decisions – remains equally accessible to all (Rawls 42). In doing so‚ it will also guard
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Distributive justice concerns the proper and equal distribution of goods and attention‚ mostly from a monetary basis such as taxes‚ compensation and re-imbursement. This distribution is most often based on the needs and merits of individuals and organizations. The difficulty lies in deciding how and to whom allocations are dispersed as well as fairness of disbursement of funds based on individual and organizational entitlements. It mainly deals with what is fair monetary compensation for labor
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Rawls’s theory of justice Rawls described his theory of justice called “Justice as Fairness” in his book A Theory of Justice. Rawls agrees with Nozick that justice is quite separate from morality and he too rejects utilitarian forms of justice. He first suggests a new way to learn about principles of justice—the original position. The original position asks us to imagine that a group of people will get to decide the principles of justice. These people don’t know who they are (what he calls a ‘veil
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the use of some individuals as means to personal ends. Overall‚ Rawls argues that the most distinctive role of justice in society is to equally distribute rights and duties to individuals. II. TOPIC: JUSTICE AS FAIRNESS A Theory of Justice is a book of political philosophy and ethics by John Rawls. It was originally published in 1971 and revised in both 1975 (for the translated editions) and 1999. In A Theory of Justice‚ Rawls attempts to solve the problem of distributive justice by utilizing
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1. Shaw and Barry distinguish two different forms of utilitarianism. What are these two forms? Briefly describe each and use examples. Two forms of utilitarianism are act utilitarianism and rule utilitarianism. Act utilitarianism focuses on the consequences of individual actions and how those involved will be affected. The right course of action to take is the action that will produce the most overall happiness. An example of act utilitarianism would be whether or not to tell a patient they have
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Chapter 4 The Origins and Concept of Justice Chapter 4 Contents Origins of the Concept of Justice Components of Justice Distributive Justice Corrective Justice CHAPTER OBJECTIVES 1. Know the definitions‚ concepts‚ and origins of justice 2. Understand the components of justice including distributive‚ corrective‚ and commutative. 3. Be able to define procedural and substantive justice. 4. Understand the difference between the utilitarian rationale and retributive rationale under
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