POLI 1001 : Exam 2 Review
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Examination #2 review questions: what is general justice, general justice is righteousness. It is a virtuous society via 2 areas of human conduct: proper conduct of individuals toward one another, and proper conduct of individuals toward themselves. Retributive: distributive justice is how a society decides to allocate its goods, retributive justice is what a society does when a wrong is committed or the idea of wrong is present. How does a society seek to right that wrong: according to aristotle, what is a constitution, the arrangement of offices (magistracies) in a state, define empirical and normative, empirical: gathering knowledge by means of observation. The key to understanding empiricism is to remember the word verify/verification . A way of knowing that can be verified through observation or the senses: normative: what ought to be. There is no empirical way to verify normative statements. Normative values are important but they require something beyond empirical values and verification.
