PHIL 1010 Midterm: PHIL 1010 MIDTERM

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Contemporary and political philosophy: looking at contemporary issues and literature. Who had political authority and power to distribute such goods) (cid:862)e(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:455) plausi(cid:271)le politi(cid:272)al theo(cid:396)(cid:455) has the sa(cid:373)e ulti(cid:373)ate (cid:448)alue, (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h is e(cid:395)ualit(cid:455)(cid:863) Normative political theory: how a society ought to be structure. Descriptive political theory: how a society is, in fact structured. Forget how everyone is acting, how should they act. Equality as a foundational: idea that equality is intrinsically valuable and the foundation of any reasonable political theory. Do we value hammers as an object but valued instead because of what they get us (instrumentally value) Intrinsically value: something is valued in and of itself. Instrumental good: something that is valued as a means to an end. An argument consists of a set of sentences consisting of one or more premises, which contain the evidence and a conclusion which is supposed to follow from the premises. Conclusion must be true of premises is true.

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