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Unit 9 Assignment – Social Philosophy

Instructions: Please note that the questions below are based on the Unit readings and are intended to be both an outline of the units’ material and the basis for your Unit Assessment, so please give your best effort to answering them thoroughly. The task is to respond to all 15 of the questions below. Each question will be worth two points.

The format for submission is to include the questions with the replies. Example:

 

How does one know what the good life is?

 - The good life is…

 

Distributive Justice - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice-distributive/

 

1.       Give the definition and an example of Distributive Justice.

2.       What is meant by Strict Egalitarianism?

3.       What is the logic behind the “Difference Principle”?

4.       What is the basic principle of Luck Egalitarianism?

5.       What is the basic idea behind Welfare-Based Principles?

6.       What are Desert-Based Principles

7.       What are the three broad categories that most contemporary proposals for desert-bases principles fit into?

8.       What is the main idea of the Libertarian Distributive Principles?

9.       What is the feminist conception of distributive justice?

10.   John Stuart Mill in The Subjection of Women (1869) gives one of the clearest early feminist critiques of the political and distributive structures of the emerging liberal democracies. What are the main elements of that critique?

Conservativism - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism

11.   Read the article and describe the different Forms of Conservativism.

Collectivism - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04106a.htm

12.   Read the article on Collectivism and briefly describe the basic principle of Collectivism.

Liberalism - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberalism/

13.   Read the article and highlight the difference between Negative, Positive, and Republican Liberty.

14.   Read the article and describe the difference between the “Old” and the “New” forms of Liberalism.

 

15.   Give the basic outline of John Rawls Theory of Justice.

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