COMM 104 Study Guide - Final Guide: Atomism, Mike Valenti, Samaritans

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Commerce
• Course: COMM 104
• Professor: Jeffery Lalonde

Document Summary

Comm 104 final exam review: courseware: plato, the. Responsibility of a business is to increase its profits , pp. An unjust person is happier than a just person. Distributive justice: a conception of justice is a set of principles for choosing between the social arrangements which determine the division of, and underwriting for a consensus as to the proper distributive shares. It is a matter of justice that economic and social benefits be divided fairly between all members of society, and thus there is a role of government in doing so. Original position is to stand behind a veil of ignorance: don"t know your gender, sexual orientation, religion, skin colour, height, wealth, etc. Set up a basic structure for the situation after the veil is lifted. Rawls makes no assumptions about human nature. Rawls simply proposes that we better be willing to live in the society in which we construct given that we first know nothing about ourselves.