Philosophy Chapter 8

What is Social and Political Philosophy

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Ronald Regan
William E. Simon
What should the role of government be?

Contract Theory - how the power and authority of the state may be justified.

Page 540, 541

Influential Theories of Justice - Determine the proper role of gov't raises questions of fairness and justice.

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Nature of Law and Obligation to obey it

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Social Philosophy

Page 539

Political Philosophy

Page 539

What justifies the state?

Page 540

Thomas Hobbes , Leviathan,

Page 541-542

Locke, and Natural Moral Laws

Page 543-544

Rousseau and the General Will

Page 545

Contemporary Social Contract: Rawls

Page 547
Hume

Communitarian Critique

PAge 549
Michael J Sandel Page 552

Social Contract and Women

Page 553

traditional View

Page 554

Public and Private Spheres

Page 554-555
Susan Okin Page 556

What is Justice?

PAge 558

Justice as Merit

Page 561

Justice as Equality

Page 563

Justice as Social Utility

Page 565

Justice based on need and ability

Page 567

Justice based on liberty

PAge 569

Justice in Classical Liberalism of Nozick

Page 573

Limits on the state

Page 574

Unjust Laws and Civil Disobedience

Page 575

Freedom

Page 579

John Stuart mill

Page 580

Human Rights

Page 582

H J McCloskey
John Stuart Mill
Kant
Nozick
Thomas Donaldson

Page 583-585

War and Terrorism

Page 586

Political Realism

Page 586-588

Pacifism

Page 588-589

Just War Theory
Saint Augustine

Page 590-594

Terrorism

Page 594-598

Marx

PAge 605-611

Rawls

611-615