PHIL 1010 Study Guide - Final Guide: Experience Machine, Political Philosophy, Consequentialism
12 Dec 2017
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Contemporary political philosophy asks these questions: who gets what? (cid:523)distribution of (cid:494)goods(cid:495)(cid:524) What(cid:495)s the best way to structure the state (cid:498)every plausible political theory has the same ultimate value, which is equality. (cid:499) Who should have access to health care, opportunities how do we decide. Who gets to decide that: says who? (who is in charge, who distributes political power) What matters is peoples happiness or wellbeing/welfare/utility but what really matters is when we think about what constitutes the right act we need to think. What constitutes the good and how we should treat one another and why. Moved into the realm of political theory. As a political theory, 2 major advantages: captures some of what we think is right) Doesn(cid:495)t specify which things we should be valuing - up to the individual. Value pluralism is a fact in our society (will be defined later) Problems: adaptive preferences when people can not achieve their.
