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John Rawls Quotes
Apr 12th
American Political Philosopher (21/2/1921 – 24/11/2002)
A Theory of Justice (1971)
The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.
To each according to his threat advantage does not count as a principle of justice.
One who lacks a sense of justice lacks certain fundamental attitudes and capacities included under the notion of humanity. Now the moral feelings are admittedly unpleasant, in some extended sense of unpleasant; but there is no way for us to avoid a liability to them without disfiguring ourselves. This liability is the price of love and trust, of friendship and affection, and of devotion to institutions and More >
Robert Nozick Quotes
Apr 12th
American libertarian philosopher (16/12/1938 – 23/1/2002).
Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974)
From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen.
There is no social entity with a good that undergoes some sacrifice for its own good. There are only individual people, different individual people, with their own individual lives. Using one of these people for the benefit of others, uses him and benefits the others. Nothing more.
Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone’s labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.
Individuals have rights More >
Brief Outline of Feminist Theory
Apr 5th
In the early 1980s law became subject to a variety of new and influential critiques. The foremost being the culmination of feminism. The vindications of women’s rights lead to a prominent movements, whereby, contextualisation of domestic violence, rape, sexual objectification, oppression, sexual discrimination, marriage and sexual marginalisation became scrutinized against the social normality, and new discourses of investigation, known as feminist scholarship, appeared to the general populace.
Key Disciplines:
Liberal feminism - Contrasts the inequality of sexes and the ideology of equality.
Difference Feminism - Contrasts the differences between male and female roles and how women are under-appreciated within society.
Radical Feminism - Develops ideas to overcome More >
