SOSC 1340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Social Science

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1340
• Professor: John Simoulidis

Document Summary

Evaluation: what is vs. what ought to be. Excessive inequality undermines freedom of rich and poor (ask a political theorist) Using ethical theories: a standard of judging the rightness and wrongness of actions, policies and institutional arrangements (what" wrong with what"s going on?) Destruction of the old social, economic, political and ideological order, creation of a new one-giddens on modernity". Capitalism emerges (17th -18th c): spokesmen of the new economic classes seeking political power: john locke, two treatises of government (1689) and adam smith, the. Classical capitalism (19th c) jeremy bentham"s and james mill"s utilitarianism: an. Ethical doctrine that measures the rightness or wrongness of actions, policies and arrangements not on natural rights" but based on their aggregate contribution to. Hedonistic view: one where pleasure is maximized, pain minimized. Compare this with the eudaimonistic view: a philosophical life (plato) or a life that is lead in accordance with the requirements of virtue (aristotle- sandel too)