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PHI 302 Chapter 7
PHI 302 Chapter 7 Furbush
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Retributive Justice | Oldest form of justice; idea that people get what they deserve; eye for an eye type of justice |
| Distributive Justice | equitable or equal distribution of good or bad to human beings based on a just and fair basis |
| Reward | something given or received for worthy behavior |
| Punishment | the act of penalizing someone for a wrongdoing |
| Retribution (Deserts Theory) | Giving people what they deserve regardless of the consequences |
| Utilitarianism (Results Theory) | Rewarding or punishing based on the results of an act |
| Restitution (compensation Theory) | Compensating someone who was a victim; usually the person doing the wrongdoing/harm gives to victim |
| Is justice concerned with past or future events? | Justice is concerned with past events not future events |
| What are the four ways that good and bad can be distributed? | 1. Equally among people 2. According to people's abilities 3. According to what they deserve or merit 4. According to their needs |
| List an example of equal distribution | A lottery or chance method of distribultion |
| What is the Veil of Ignorance? | Set up the principles of social justice without any regard for accidental features of people's lives |
| Why is rewardimng people based on effort sometimes a problem? | It can be hard to measure effort. |
| What did John Rawls believe? | That rights are given to people by a just society |
| What are human rights? | natural rights to life and liberty belonging to all people; impacts how people should treat each other |
| What ethical system does the author of our text, Jaques Thiroux, support? | Humanitarian Ethics--the value of life, goodness or rightness, justice or fairness, truth telling or honesty, and individual freedom |
| What ia private need? | describes the personal, material needs of individuals who are poor or out of work |
| What is a public need? | the system by which people are rewarded for fulfilling the needs of the general people |
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