01:790:101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Summum, Robert Nozick, Tyrant

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: 01:790:101
• Professor: Eber- Schimd

Document Summary

Original position -the original position = purely hypothetical situation characterized so as to lead to a certain conception of justice (23) In op, parties are rational and mutually disinterested: people egoists (i. e. , driven by certain interests, presume opposition of individual aims (even religious ones, people = rational (i. e. , take the most effective means to given ends) Purpose of elaborating the conditions of op = To make vivid to ourselves the restrictions that it seems reasonable to impose on arguments for principles of justice, and therefore on these principles themselves. (29) In the op, we are all equal in terms of (1)our rights in the procedures of choosing principles, and (2)our ability to understand and to act upon whatever principles we adopt. The conditions that specify a fair agreement. the original position is the position under which people are free, equal and rational and are concerned to make a choice of principles that they will live under.