Privacy
A metaphorical sensorial personal space or privacy bubble (one that most people in society would not want anyone to access).
This is required to live a virtuous life.
What are friendships of virtue?
Excellence, Social Contribution, Community, and Social Recognition.
What are the goods of work?
According to Sandel, this undermines our appreciation of life as a gift and our sense of shared fate.
What is the drive to mastery?
Thursday, December 5th at 6pm.
What is the final exam date and time?
The social conventions of one's home and seeking out inappropriate information are specific examples of this philosophical concept.
What are Scanlon's zones?
Affective well-being and life satisfaction.
What are the measures of subjective well-being?
For most people, paid work is the only, or primary, means of attaining the four goods necessary for a decent life, making their provision this.
What is a matter of justice?
Enhancement achieved by drugs and surgery in the current generation.
What is horizontal enhancement?
Austin, Akanksha, and Madeleine.
Who are our TAs?
This is the claim that the purpose of public service ought often to be constructed as a violation of genuine privacy interests.
What is Nisenbaum's privacy in public?
Improves friendships by bridging long-distance communication; fosters constant comparison to other people in our lives.
What are the benefits and harms of social media (according to Surovell)?
The argument that the provision of the four goods of work is a matter of justice is inspired by this philosopher.
Correcting genetic defects to treat diseases vs. improving normal human traits.
What is the difference between genetic treatment and genetic enhancement?
A political ideology that glorifies workers and the working class.
What is workerism?
Increased publicity via social media and other digital platforms brings about this modern problem of surveillance.
What is privacy online?
A friend’s good being valuable in itself, and their life having the same kind of value as your own, leads Aristotle to conclude this.
What is "the friend is another self"?
These people destroyed factory machines in the 19th century.
Who were the Luddites?
Kamm argues that we could criticize the desire for mastery, but we shouldn’t object to this.
What is the discovery of a cure?
This is a pro-tanto argument for universal basic income.
What are the four goods of work?
Control over information and access (which establishes the conditions for a free society among other things and enhances people’s capacity to function as autonomous, creative, free agents).
What is privacy in the public realm?
Doing this will nudge social media companies to be more conscious about the way they design their apps.
What is deleting our social media?
Once thought to be a problem for blue-collar workers alone, this has become a threat to white-collar jobs as well.
What is automation?
Elliot thinks that this results in drugs being used off-label and normal conditions being pathologized.
What is the role of the market?
A virtuous person cannot live without these.
What are friendships of virtue, pleasure, and use?