A Theory of Justice
A Theory of Justice is the most famous and influential modern book defending this political theory.
What is Liberalism (or Liberal Egalitarianism)?
Robert Nozick and John Rawls taught down the hallway at this university.
What is Harvard?
Libertarians focus on ______ liberty, in Isaiah Berlin's terminology.
What is Negative Liberty?
This, of John Rawls' two principles of justice, is most directly concerned with freedom.
What is the Liberty Principle?
This is the most common type of hawk you are likely to see on Hawk Hill.
What is a red tailed hawk?
What is the Social Contract?
Friedrich Hayek lived in the these three countries.
What are Austria, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
If Rawls provides a theory of distribution, Nozick provides a theory of e__________.
What are entitlements.
John Stuart Mill put forward this principle as the only instance in which we can limit freedom.
What is the Harm Principle?
What is The Devils?
What is Lexical Priority?
When is the 1970s?
Nozick draws on this philosopher to justify his theory of "just acquisition" of property. In this philosopher's mind, property came from mixing one's labor with the land.
Who is John Locke?
What is Freedom To.
St. Joseph's University founded in this year (I'll give you ten years on either side).
When is 1851.
When people describe Rawls' theory as being an example of "distributive justice," they are referring to this principle of justice.
What is the Difference Principle?
John Rawls' experience in combat in this war and place led him to turn away from a life committed to religion and to turn towards political philosophy (I'm looking for the name of the war and generally the location where he fought)?
What is WWII in the Pacific Theater?
Positive Liberty believes that the _________ self is in some sense more real than the heteronomous self.
What is the Autonomous Self?
What is freedom as absence of coercion?
Saint Joseph's University is located in these two counties.
What is Philadelphia County and Montgomery County?
Many saw Rawls' Theory of Justice as providing the philosophical justification for this kind of government that emerged, especially in Western Europe, after WWII.
What is the welfare state?
Isaiah Berlin and his family had to leave their home in Riga in the wake of this historical event.
What is the Russian Revolution?
This evocative characterization of the state is valorized by libertarians.
What is the Night Watchman State (or the Minimal State)?
Rawls' Difference Principle would likely increase the freedom of those at the bottom end of this, which is one way goods are distributed in a society.
What is the Natural Lottery (would also accept the Social Lottery)?
We often think of America as being young compared to European countries, but Philadelphia was founded two decades before this major European city, which houses the Hermitage Museum and Peter and Paul Fortress.
What is St. Petersburg?