[PHIL 2050] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (24 pages long)
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Institutional harm: is a harm against the state and humanity and does fall under the harm principle: an example of this is not paying taxes. His own good, either physical or moral, is not. Free choices also have content-independent value (what we might also call intrinsic value) for those who make them (we might also call this dimension of the value of free choices consequence- independent value) Mill(cid:495)s utilitarian argument against paternalistic )nterferences with )ndividual liberty. The odds are always that the value of interference will be outweighed by the value of leaving individuals alone in their person conduct. Hypothetical consent: central idea in much political philosophy: hypothetical consent is rational consent: what individuals would consent to if they were fully informed and reasoning correctly. How might we consent to hypothetical consent? (1) appeal to basic goods: goods all persons would want if they are to pursue any valuable life-plan at all.
