PHIL 1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Political Philosophy, Wilt Chamberlain, Minimax
3 Dec 2017
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Contemporary political philosophy asks: who gets what? (distribution of goods) How should state distribute goods and how should state be structured: says who? (who is in charge, who distributes political power) Every plausible political theory has the same ultimate value, which is equality . This is a common quotation found throughout the text. Political theories; left and right of spectrum. Left favours equality; everything distributed equally by government. Right; everyone free to pursue life, liberty and freedom. Kymlicka disagrees and argues that theories need to be rethought. Even though theories have different fundamental values all have foundational value of equality. Argument: set of sentences, some premises, intended to imply a conclusion. Argument: set of sentences some of which premises which contain evidences and a conclusion to follow the premise. If premise implies conclusion usually argument is good. If it is possible for conclusion to be false and premise to be true, bad argument.
