PHIL202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: William Godwin, Thomas Nagel, Distributive Justice

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL202
• Professor: hsin-wenlee

Document Summary

Persons are ultimate units of concern for everyone not only for their compatriots, fellow regionalists, or such like: cosmopolitanism legal vs. Institutional vs. interactional: the nature of the moral constraints to be imposed, an institutional conception postulates certain fundamental principles of justice. These apply to institutional schemes and thus are second-order principles: standards for assessing the ground rule and practices that regulate human interactions: an interactional conception postulated certain fundamental principles of ethics. Intermediate level: e(cid:448)e(cid:396)yo(cid:374)e"s i(cid:374)te(cid:396)ests a(cid:396)e t(cid:396)eated e(cid:395)ually: foundation level: the interests of compatriots should be given priority even when, all things considered, this cannot be justified by any principle of equal treatment. Intermediate level: consequentialist justification, prioritizing our conationals/compatriots would bring about the best overall consequence, beitz"s c(cid:396)iti(cid:395)ue, false assumption: background equality. It"s (cid:374)ot t(cid:396)ue that p(cid:396)io(cid:396)itizi(cid:374)g o(cid:374)e"s (cid:272)o(cid:374)atio(cid:374)al (cid:449)ill al(cid:449)ays (cid:271)(cid:396)i(cid:374)g a(cid:271)out the (cid:271)est overall consequences.