Exam 8: The Just Society

The principle of entitlement says that even if people don't deserve the goods they have, they nevertheless may be entitled to them.

Rawls thinks of social contracts as very useful fictions.

Which theory do you think is likely to produce a more just system- classical liberalism or socialism? Explain.

According to Hobbes, in the condition of man in which there is a state of war of everyone against everyone, every man has a right to

What does Rawls mean when he says that social contracts are a useful fiction? Do you agree or disagree with Rawls about this? Why?

Hume criticized social contract theories on the basis that

Hobbes asserts that among men there is an equality of ability.

_______ is the political view that government should be small and limited to night-watchman functions.

Under _______, people are rewarded according to their needs, not by how well or how hard they work.

According to Rawls, each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with

_______ is a political economic system that lets the means of production accrue to people through the workings of a free market.

Locke would favor a theocracy.

For Hobbes, the most reasonable form of government is a democracy.

Justice refers to people getting what is fair or what is their due.

Hobbes says that good and evil merely refer to our desires and aversions.

Are Hobbes's absolutist view of government and democracy in conflict? Explain.

For Hobbes, justice is a matter of the keeping of covenants (contracts), and the only way to ensure that covenants are kept is to let the Leviathan reign.

In Hobbes's view, the commonwealth must not share power with those who are governed.

The political and economic doctrine that the means of production (property, factories, businesses) should be owned or controlled by the people is called

How do Locke's view of human nature and Hobbes' view differ? Which do you think is more accurate?