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Beliefs PTh Exam 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1.Mill's Belief of Freedom | Utilitarianism, individual freedom, and freedom of expression |
| 2.Mill's reason for opposing censorship | Assume infallibility, opinion might be true, opinion might contain truth, if false it can prevent truths from becoming dogma |
| 3.Mill's spheres of absolute freedom | Freedom of conscience, freedom of taste and pursuit, and freedom of association |
| 4.Hayek's Belief of Freedom | Libertarianism, individual freedom, and perception of freedom |
| 5.Republican Liberty | Freedom of structural independence(Presence of democratic constitution and safe guards against government exercising arbitrarily) |
| 6.Berlin's Warning | The paradox of positive liberty has been used to justify authoritarianism and oppression |
| 7. Three elements of Freedom | Desires, obstacles, and agents |
| 8.Charles Critique of Berlin | Berlin's view of freedom is too simplistic |
| 9.Libertarianism belief | Right to property, state protection of individuals, and minimal state |
| 10.Critiques of Libertarianism | Principle of just acquisition, libertarian notion of rights, and great wealth can be a weapon/power |
| 11.Liberalism | Liberty, state redistribution of private property, and big state |
| 12.Marxism | Equality, abolition institution of private property, and very big state |
| 13.Bentham's Assumptions | Happiness is nothing but pleasure, individuals can evaluate their happiness, policymakers can evaluate too, the evaluation is quantitative, and happiness of each person can be added to the happiness of others for total happiness |
| 14.Rawlsian Theory of Justice | Maximizing individual liberty while ensuring the greatest benefit to the least advantage |
| 15.Rawlsian hypothetical contract | 1st. equal right to the most extensive liberty, 2nd. social and economic inequalities are to be arranged |
| 16.Nozick End-State conception of Justice | Unjust if it is unjust to some people, needs constant interference, and makes the economic system inefficient |
| 17.Nozick Entitlement theory of Justice | justice in acquisition, justice is transfer, and rectification of injustice |
| 18.Libertarian Theory of Justice | Justice center on the historical acquisition of property and rectifying past injustices |
| 19.Utilittarianism Theory of Justice | Justice based on maximizing overall happiness and minimizing suffering, with pleasure in pain as the only intrinsic values |
| 20.Utilitarianism Critiques | The interpersonal comparison of utility problem, fails to respect individual/minority rights, and utilitarianism does not stress equality |