Exam 11: Social Justice

According to Nozick, it is unrealistic to suppose that

To refer to the colors used in a painting is, according to Sibley, to make

The fool, according to Hobbes, claims that it is always rational to keep one's contracts.

Are you convinced by Held that we should change the perspective we take when thinking about society and morality? Explain.

Summarize Hobbes' argument against the fool in your own words. Do you find it persuasive? Explain.

What, in your own words, are Rawls's two principles of justice? Do you agree that these are just foundations for a society? Explain.

How do Socrates and the others define justice and injustice? How do they arrive at this definition, and do you think that this is a good definition? Explain.

According to Hobbes, it is irrational to do something that one does not think will benefit one's self-interest.

Nozick's view focuses on what people are entitled to have.

Why is it rational to keep one's agreements, according to Hobbes? Do you agree? Explain.

In your own words, explain the opposing models for society discussed by Held. Do you agree with Held's criticism of traditional models for society?

Injustice, according to Rawls, is

On Rawls's view, the correct principles of justice are determined by

According to Hobbes's view of human nature, people are naturally inclined to quarrel and fight with one another.

According to Hobbes, the right of nature is

Explain some key differences between the relation between "economic men" and the relation between a mothering person and a child.

How does Hobbes define "war"? Do you agree with him that unless we lived under a coercive state power our lives would be characterized by a state of war? Explain.

What is the role of free choice in Nozick's theory of justice?

Do you agree with Plato that democracy is an inferior form of government? Explain.

What do the principles of justice apply to, and what is their intuitive foundation? Do you find them plausible? Explain. Distributive Justice Robert Nozick