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Ideas of Adam Swift, by Text

[British, fl. 2014, Professor at the University of Warwick.]

2014	Political Philosophy (3rd ed)

p.182

20556

The best way to build a cohesive community is to be involved in a war

1 'Concept'

p.14

20533

Justice can be seen as fairness or entitlement or desert

1 'Nozick'

p.36

20540

Redistributing wealth treats some people as means, rather than as ends

1 'Nozick'

p.38

20541

You can't necessarily sell your legitimate right to something, even if you produced it

1 'Rawls'

p.26

20535

Isn't it more rational to maximise the average position, but with a safety net?

1 'Rawls'

p.28

20536

Inequalities are needed, as incentives to do the most important jobs

1 'Rawls'

p.29

20537

Hypothetical contracts have no binding force

1 'Social'

p.52

20542

Cosmopolitans reject the right of different states to distribute resources in different ways

2 'Freedom'

p.76

20546

Libertarians about property ignore the fact that private property is a denial of freedoms

2 'Resisting' 6

p.91

20547

We should respect the right of people to live in their own way, even if it is irrational

2 'Two'

p.59

20545

Maybe a freedom is from a restraint, and also in order to do something

3 'Equality'

p.105

20550

Opportunity should ignore extraneous factors, or foster competence, or ignore all disadvantages

3 'Gender'

p.110

20551

Men have had the power to structure all of our social institutions

3 'Intro'

p.96

20548

A person can desire redistibution of wealth, without it being for reasons of equality

4 'Conc'

p.184

20557

Membership and inclusion in a community implies non-membership and exclusion

4 'Correcting'

p.147

20553

Liberals mistakenly think individuals choose their values, without reference to the community

4 'Liberalism'

p.175

20554

Multiculturalism is a barrier to the whole state being a community

4 'Liberalism'

p.176

20555

Liberals are concerned to protect individuals from too much community

5 'Intrinsic 1'

p.213

20564

Anti-colonial movements usually invoke the right of their 'people' to self-determination

5 'Procedures'

p.202

20560

Teledemocracy omits debate and deliberation, which are important parts of good decisions

5 'Procedures'

p.203

20559

Democracy is bad, but the other systems are worse

5 'Subjectivism'

p.209

20561

Since all opinions are treated as equal in democracy, it implies there are no right answers

5 'Values'

p.212

20563

Design your democracy to yield political stability, or good decisions?

5 'Values'

p.212

20562

Design your democracy to treat citizens equally, or to produce better citizens?