MUSI 2540 Lecture 3: SJ In Class Notes 1.17
9 May 2018
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Tangible product that’s unevenly shared:
Internet access/tech
Ideas on how to fix it:
If you qualify for housing assistance, free wifi.
Poor schools get free laptops.
-if you don’t have a kid though, can afford a family cheap smartphone.
----> if you come to boston with ur company, u have to help the charity.
----> if not, either raise taxes or take it from the salary of government officials or local
administrators, like certain college presidents who make too much money, and it’ll be shown as
a philothramic thing or maybe they can get a tax break for that?
Learning through Comparison and from Others: Sen on a Theory of Justice
● Rawls: Social justice can be realized (the totalist approach) through public reasoning,
free from the “personal slant” of our personal backgrounds and place in society.
● This is an inadequate approach because:
○ We are never free from our subject positioning and
○ We do not need to know what a just society is, in order to advance social justice.
● A comparative social justice allows for “durable incompleteness”: We can still identify a
clear social injustice, which calls for remedy, without eliminating all social injustice. We
can also allow for conflict and differing opinions that require either a) negotiation or b)
arbitration.
The Eyes of the Rest of Humankind: Learning from Others
● Why should we seek multiple perspectives, when conflict arises?
○ Other people may be affected (e.g., war, free trade, climate change)
○ Our local parochialism (a narrow outlook) may blind us to possible solutions
○ We can learn from the experiences of others.
Our ethics evolve through contact with others.
Cosmopolitanism
● Cosmopolitan - citizen of the cosmos
● Cosmopolitans “regard all the peoples of the earth as so many branches of a single
family…” (Wieland).
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Document Summary
If you don"t have a kid though, can afford a family cheap smartphone. If you qualify for housing assistance, free wifi. ---> if you come to boston with ur company, u have to help the charity. Learning through comparison and from others: sen on a theory of justice. Rawls: social justice can be realized (the totalist approach) through public reasoning, free from the personal slant of our personal backgrounds and place in society. We are never free from our subject positioning and. We do not need to know what a just society is, in order to advance social justice. A comparative social justice allows for durable incompleteness : we can still identify a clear social injustice, which calls for remedy, without eliminating all social injustice. We can also allow for conflict and differing opinions that require either a) negotiation or b) arbitration. The eyes of the rest of humankind: learning from others.
