PHILO-120 Lecture 6: Philo_120_Lecture_6
15 Jun 2020
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Natural law(not laws of nature): rational participation in eternal law. Point to how people can live well and flourish. Rawl"s concerned only with justice, not with ethics as a whole. At first humans lived in the state of nature -a time in which there were no laws so that it was every man for himself, no rules. Thomas hobbes-published leviathan, argues in favor of setting up a government for leviathan in which people are in a civil state. Achieve civil state by entering into a social contract-the basis for morality (moral contract) Contractarianism-our moral actions are considered moral if they conform to what might be the case if there were a moral or social contract in place. Rawl wanted to discover what a perfectly just society is like. Sets up a perfectly just system that is made up of rational agents that are influenced by categorical imperatives. Veil of ignorance-person wears vi and knows nothing about who they are.
