PHIL 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: H. L. A. Hart, Ronald Dworkin, Lon L. Fuller
6 Feb 2018
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Instrumental good good that can give you another good. Intrinsic good something that is good in and by itself: humans as "rational animals, humans can only be happy if we fulfill eudaimonia. If we do not live as rational beings we will not be ethical. Justice and injustice seem to be ambiguous --> what makes a person just or unjust seems to have various meanings. "let us take as a starting-point, then, the various meanings of "an unjust man. " Both the lawless man and the grasping and unfair man are thought to be unjust, so that evidently both the law- abiding and the fair man will be just. The just, then, is the lawful and the fair, the unjust the unlawful and the unfair. " Justice as a virtue: the most excellent conception of justice will unify the lawful and the fair. Justice as equity: treating people the same under the law.
