2017 | This is Political Philosophy |
1 'Conflict' | p.22 | 20586 | Free speech does not include the right to shout 'Fire!' in a crowded theatre |
1 'Happiness' | p.23 | 20587 | Most people want equality because they want a flourishing life |
1 'Is happiness' | p.12 | 20583 | If maximising pleasure needs measurement, so does fulfilling desires |
1 'Is happiness' | p.13 | 20584 | Desire satisfaction as the ideal is confused, because we desire what we judge to be good |
2 'What is' | p.35 | 20589 | Maybe a person's true self is their second-order desires |
3 'Deprivation' | p.72 | 20591 | If there is no suffering, wealth inequalities don't matter much |
4 'Cosmopolitan' | p.98 | 20596 | For global justice, adopt rules without knowing which country you will inhabit |
4 'Original' | p.85 | 20593 | The veil of ignorance ensures both fairness and unanimity |
5 'Claim' | p.113 | 20602 | Some rights are 'claims' that other people should act in a certain way |
5 'Do the people' | p.116 | 20606 | Epistemic theories defend democracy as more likely to produce the right answer |
5 'Does democracy' | p.123 | 20609 | If several losing groups would win if they combine, a runoff seems called for |
5 'Interest' | p.114 | 20604 | Choice theory says protecting individual autonomy is basic (but needs to cover infants and animals) |
5 'Interest' | p.114 | 20603 | One theory (fairly utilitarian) says rights protect interests (but it needs to cover trivial interests) |
5 'Interest' | p.115 | 20605 | Rights as interests (unlike rights as autonomy) supports mandatory voting |
5 'Intro' | p.106 | 20597 | If winning elections depends on wealth, we have plutocracy instead of democracy |
5 'Is there' | p.120 | 20607 | Having a right does not entail further rights needed to implement it |
5 'Unjust' | p.137 | 20610 | Instead of against natural law, we might assess unjust laws against the values of the culture |
5 'What are' | p.121 | 20608 | Unjust institutions may be seen as just; are they legitimate if just but seen as unjust? |
5 'What is' | p.108 | 20598 | In a democracy, which 'people' are included in the decision process? |
5 'What is' | p.108 | 20600 | Which areas of public concern should be decided democratically, and which not? |
5 'What is' | p.108 | 20599 | How should democratic votes be aggregated? Can some person's votes count for more? |
5 'Who gets' | p.109 | 20601 | Discussion before voting should be an essential part of democracy |
6 'Consent' | p.147 | 20612 | If being subject to the law resembles a promise, we are morally obliged to obey it |
6 'Gratitude' | p.150 | 20613 | We have obligations to our family, even though we didn't choose its members |
6 'Membership' | p.152 | 20614 | People often have greater attachment to ethnic or tribal groups than to the state |
6 'What should' | p.144 | 20611 | If others must obey laws that we like, we must obey laws that they like? |
7 'Rationales' | p.178 | 20617 | How should the punishment fit the crime (for stealing chickens?) |
8 'Hard I' | p.198 | 20619 | Is abortion the ending of a life, or a decision not to start one? |
9 'fairly' | p.233 | 20620 | If minority views are accepted in debate, then religious views must be accepted |
9 'In the conduct' | p.168 | 20616 | During wars: proportional force, fair targets, fair weapons, safe prisoners, no reprisals |
9 'Ius ad' | p.165 | 20615 | Just wars: resist aggression, done on just cause, proportionate, last resort, not futile, legal |