PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Susan Moller Okin, Potentiality And Actuality, Gender Role
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Creating a just society: rights and liberties (locke, economic opportunity (rawls, education (mill, bentham, rawls, allocation of wealth and property (marx, mill, rawls, locke, healthcare (rawls, mill, political representation (hobbes, others libertarianism. Confucius: only way to avoid social unrest was by establishing a social order based on commitment to humanity or benevolence political harmony by cultivating harmony in each individual. Plato: matching unique talents of each individuals to social responsibilities (leaders, guardians, workers) Aristotle: humans are naturally communal animals, each person should seek happiness by discovering and fulfilling his or her own unique purpose (entelechy) Mill: individual rights good for the greatest amount of people. We watched the mike wallace interview ayn rand in 1959. Reason is the only guide to action and that the highest moral purpose is to fulfill your own rational self-interest. If you are a proponent of virtue theory, then you would say that courage is a virtue because: it satisfies the doctrine of the mean.
