Thinking and Justice
A person believes that left-handed people are more creative.
They notice and remember famous creative left-handed individuals (like artists or musicians), but ignore or forget right-handed creative people.
This selective attention reinforces their original belief, even if it isn’t actually true.
What is confirmation bias?
Wrote Leviathan and believed human lives are nasty, brutish, and short.
Who is Hobbes?
These people spread Christianity and European values to Africa as part of colonialism.
What are missionaries?
Period of direct British colonial rule in India.
British statement to sponsor a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
What is the Balfour Declaration?
A manager strongly believes their team is productive.
Even when deadlines are repeatedly missed and employees complain about unclear instructions, the manager fails to recognize that their own leadership style may be part of the problem.
What is cognitive blindness?
Wrote Encyclopédie, which emphasized the importance of spreading knowledge to the masses.
Who is Diderot?
Systems built and used to transport resources out of colonies to benefit colonizers and not local populations
What is infrastructure?
Philosophy of nonviolent resistance espoused by Gandhi.
What is satyagraha?
The spreading of a people outside of their original homeland.
What is diaspora?
A person exercises and eats healthy all week, then uses that as justification to binge on junk food over the weekend.
What is moral licensing?
Believed the purpose of criminal punishment was to deter crime and to have punishment be proportional to the crime.
Who is Diderot?
European conference where leaders met to divide Africa without any African participation.
What is the Berlin Conference?
Building a power base among peasants was essential to which ruler's rise to power?
Who is Mao Zedong?
Arabic term meaning "catastrophe," referring the mass displacement of Palestinians resulting from 1948.
What is the Nakba?
What is utilitarianism?
Humans should be treated as ends in themselves, not merely tools for others. Whose central idea of ethical philosophy was this
The right of a people to rule themselves and their land.
What is sovereignty?
This was an effort to industrialize China rapidly that led to widespread famine.
What was the Great Leap Forward?
This meeting established peace between Egypt and Israel, but left issues between Israel and Palestine unresolved.
What are the Camp David Accords?
A person finds a wallet full of cash on the street and returns it to the owner — not because of fear of punishment or expectation of reward, but because honesty and integrity are part of their character.
Which framework of justice does this exemplify?
What are virtue ethics
Major European disaster that challenged belief in a rational, ordinary world.
What was the Lisbon Earthquake?
Who is Chinua Achebe?
This "encouraged period of government criticism" that led to crackdowns of dissenters.
Movement that responded to European colonial control and Zionism, emphasizing Arab identity and claims to the land of Palestine.
What is Palestinian Nationalism?