SY103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Great Privilege, Social Philosophy, Political Philosophy
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Social philosophy: the normative study of the social behavior of humans and the issues which arise in their interactions. Political philosophy: the normative study of government, relationships between individuals and communities, rights and justice: social political philosophy: the intersection of social philosophy and political philosophy. Examining justice: a property of a political system, a set of social relations or actions between individuals, consider justice as a problem of specifying how social benefits and burdens should be, distributed (distributive justice, rectified (rectificatory justice) Aristotle the concept of justice from nichomachean ethics and. What is the connection between moral dessert or virtue and justice. Modern political philosophers (rawls) separate virtue from justice: equality, promotes freedom. The just is said by aristotle to not include the: god-like. Justice is tied to honoring virtue, merit, and moral dessert. Distribution of goods/honors is a matter of fit. Justice involves two factors: things and the persons to whom the things are assigned.
