Monday, 11 June 2012

A222 - Exploring Philosophy : Book 6 Politics

My wife went for an OU exam today and she said there was roughly 30% no-shows.  It seems a bit of a waste of money and time not to at least have a stab at the exam.

So with that in mind, it has been a fairly good revision of Book 6.

And the names to remember are :

Plato                 - Obligation, parental, fairplay, contract,
Nozick               - Free-Riding, no obligation through benefits
Locke & Hobbs   - consent tacit and implicit
Hume                 -unconscious man carried aboard a ship
Rawls                 - original position, veil of ignorance, two principals,
                           difference principal
Kymlicka           - difference principal allows the lazy to get resources
                           from the productive
Nozick               - Re-distribution is forced labour,
Dworkin             - Luck Egalitarianism distribution should be
                           choice-sensitive and luck-insensitive.
Anderson           - Democratic Egalitarianism, equal moral worth, judgements
                            about responsibility are abandoned.

So on to Book 1 again tomorrow.....

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