Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Wilt Chamberlain, Justice As Fairness, Gender Identity
1 Dec 2017
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According to nozick, taxation is on par with forced labour. Nozick disagrees with rawl"s views of distributing income that benefits the worst off. Difference principle will require interference in people"s lives. Rawls: tax on wealth need not be invasive. Nozick: taxation is on a par with forced labour. Rawls: redistribution can increase the freedom of the poor. Correctly emphasizes the value of making our own choices. But fails to deal with fairly with unequal circumstances. So, wilt chamberlain (and we) lack absolute property rights because such rights would prevent us from compensating undeserved inequalities. The history of political thought overlooks whole areas of social concern. Example: john stuart mill rejected racism but accepted a role for colonialism. Women, racial and ethnic minorities, disabled, lgbt, foreigners, immigrants, and future generations. The problem of the twentieth century id the problem of the colour line . Du bois objects to skin colour and hair texture as grounds for excluding people from sharing in.
