Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Robert Nozick, Wilt Chamberlain, John Stuart Mill
30 Mar 2018
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Nozick versus rawls: rawls"s difference principle is a patterned principle, free exchanges will create a new distribution, difference principle will require interference in people"s lives. Taxation: rawls: taxes on wealth need not be invasive, nozick: taxation is on a par with forced labour, rawls: redistribution can increase the freedom of the poor. Women, racial and ethnic minorities, disabled, lgbt, foreigners, immigrants, and future generations. The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line: du bois objects to skin colour and hair texture as grounds for excluding people from sharing in. Racism and justice: what racism is dominates, and excludes to discriminate others, permanent difference as the rationale for using power to treat other races unjustly, anti-racism: challenging race as a category. Disability: medical model of disability: disability should be treated medically, social model of disability: society disables people, what counts as a disability is sometimes controversial; for example, deafness.
