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Ryan Davis Byu western political science 202.
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Ryan Davis Byu western political science202
Reflective equilibrium - ANS-Modifying our considered judgments and accepted
principles until they match each other. Work from both ends. Reevaluate intuition and
principles so that they match up together
Rawls Justice - ANS-The first virtue of social institutions. Each person has an
inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of the whole society cannot
override.
Liberty Principle - ANS-Each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive
basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others
vote, run for office, freedom of speech and assembly, liberty of conscience, property,
freedom from arbitrary arrest
Equality Principle - ANS-Social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that
they are to be of the greatest benefit to the least-advantaged members of society
(difference principle)
offices and positions must be open to everyone under conditions of fair equality of
opportunity and goods
Marxist view about justice - ANS-Equality is morally important
Liberal view about justice - ANS-Individual freedom is morally important
Basic Structure - ANS-The subject of justice. The way that major social institutions
distribute fundamental rights and duties, advantages of social cooperation. It assumes
strict compliance
Society - ANS-Self sufficient organization of persons who have to find binding rules of
conduct
Well-organized: 1. Everyone agrees about the rules of justice 2. basic social institutions
are just
Stable
Perfect Procedural Justice - ANS-There is an independent fact about what is just, and a
procedure for finding it
, Justice is defined by the outcome
Imperfect Procedural Justice - ANS-There is an independent fact about what is just, but
no procedure for finding it
Justice is defined by the outcome, not the procedure
Pure Procedural Justice - ANS-There is a procedure that decides the facts about what
is just
What Rawls aims to give
Justice is determined by the procedure. You know that something is just not because of
its outcome, but because of the procedure
Genius - ANS-To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your
private heart is true for all men"hear
Self-Reliance - ANS-Do not have the virtue of conformity
Focuses on our beliefs - how much of what we believe and think actually comes from
us. Do I really believe things or do I inherit them from those around me? Makes it
difficult to see who we really are
Man thinking - ANS-one that thinks for himself.
Thinker - ANS-a parrot of other men's thinking / a victim of society.
Veil of Ignorance - ANS-Parties have no knowledge of their class position, social status,
place in society, gender, race, intelligence, strength
Basic Liberty - ANS-Liberties that anyone would have reason to want. Freedom of
speech and assembly; liberty of conscience and freedom of thought; freedom of person
(no assault, dismemberment, etc.); property; freedom from arbitrary arrest
Primary Goods - ANS-All purpose means to pursuing a conception of the good. Rights,
liberties, opportunities, income and wealth
Difference Principle - ANS-The second principle of justice; differences in life prospects
can only be justified only if the difference in expectation is to the advantage of the worst
off person (maximum)
Moral Powers - ANS-Freedom comes from possession of the two moral powers
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