PHI 2183 Lecture Notes - Wilt Chamberlain, Robert Nozick, John Stuart Mill
20 Apr 2014
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Recap of rawls and intro to nozick"s libertarian critique march 18, 2014. Advantage of bentham and mill"s greatest happiness principle- moral rules no longer mysterious, but are subordinate to promoting human happiness and welfare. Prof: let justice be done and so punish the world . Golden rule- has to presuppose self-interest; doesn"t take into account the individual preferences of people, for example can"t just have jazz. Universalization test- kant"s categorical imperative- logical contradiction, contradiction of will. Depends on how risk averse they are: rawls says they will want maxi-min, supposed to be better than intuition (rawls" theory) Difference principle is immune to levelling down objection- if one is blind, take the eyes of everyone else- margaret thatcher"s argument. Temkin: no change in distribution is justified which does not benefit someone. Walzer"s spheres of justice- different goods have different distributions, ex: medicine distributed according to need, and different spheres shouldn"t invade each other.
