PHIL 103 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Capital Punishment By Country, Eye For An Eye, Study Guide
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Philosophy study guide: torture, unnecessary pain or distress caused to an individual in order to obtain a confession or information, right not to be hungry a. It is a goal: positive right, right to property, right to own and use things however you choose, extrinsically good. Laissez-faire economic system: market without any government intrusion a. i. Negative right: socialist economic system, takes social equality to be the ultimate ideal, two common elements in all social thought b. i. A commitment to the public ownership of the means of production b. ii. A commitment to the ideal of equality (morally and conditionally: welfare-state capitalism, mostly free market, but government taxes to use money itself. Liberal concept of justice: equality and liberty. Liberty/freedom: socialist concept of justice, equality, neo-malthusian approach, the problem can be fixed with population control because overpopulation is the problem, root of problem = population, harden, systematic change approach, high fertility rates are the problem a. i.
