PHL 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Atomism
19 Apr 2016
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What are some contemporary issues that consider the justice of the distribution of material goods, resources, etc: list. Clean water in flint, michigan (inadequate distribution of clean water, a basic need) Healthcare, not everyone has access to good, cheap healthcare (quality of life) Unequal distribution of tax burdens (rich pay more than poor) Justice: moral rightness in ordering interpersonal relations within political society. All social values-liberty and opportunity, income and wealth, and the bases of self-respect- are to be distributed equally unless an unequal distribution of any, or all, of these values is to everyone"s advantage. Individual: someone being a possessor and consumer of goods. Social atomism: the individual is a separate and discrete being that has only external interactions. Constitutive of one another (what we find within ourselves because of our relationships with others) through. Concerns to contemporary examples of justice don"t typically include the distribution of resources.
