Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Marginal Utility, Justice As Fairness, Economic Inequality
10 Apr 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Poli sci lecture 6 oct. 8 2015. Gender-egalitarian policy implication of the appeal to nature. Why, on the culture view, there is inequality of opportunity. Change both the female norms and the male norms. Transform the culture to an acceptance of public childcare. Thomas piketty, capital in the twenty-first century. U. s. president obama on the defining challenge of our time . Self respect depends on what you can do relative to other people. Exclusion from common life" leads to a lack of self-respect. Self-respect requires participation in society on relatively equal terms with others. Economic inequality is bad for those who have less. Being economically worse off is itself harmful to your health. Economic inequality is bad for communal, fraternal, or solidaristic social relations. Economically stratified communities: physically and socially gated. But solidarity is not as uncontroversially valuable as self-respect or health. Goods such that you can give someone more only giving others less.
