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Justice_ What's the Right Thing to Do_ - Michael Sandel [144]

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On Liberty (Mill), 49–52

organ (human) sales, 70–72

outrage: over price gouging, 7; over Wall Street bonuses, 13–14

outsourcing pregnancy, 99, 100–101

Oxford University, St. Anne’s College, 47–48

paid pregnancy, 91–101

Palmer, Arnold, 204

Panopticon, 35

paternalism, libertarian objections to, 60

patriotism, as virtue, 228–34

Paul, Ron, 79

pauper management, Bentham’s proposal, 35–37

pay differentials, 18, 157–58, 162–63

Peace Corps, 84

Pentagon: debate over awarding Purple Heart, 10–12; reasons for limiting Purple Heart award to physical injuries, 10

Peres, Shimon, 227, 228

PGA (Professional Golfers’ Association), 203–204

Philip Morris, 42–43

Plato, view of justice, 29

pleasures, higher vs. lower, 52–56

Political Liberalism (Rawls), 247–48

politics: Aristotle’s defense of slavery, 200–202, 203; Aristotle’s view, 192, 193–95, 196, 197, 199, 200; modern view, 192–93; and nature of human beings, 195–97; purpose or telos, 192–95

Politics (Aristotle), 196

post-traumatic stress disorder, 10, 11

pregnancy for pay, 91–101

price gouging: aftermath of Florida’s Hurricane Charley, 3–5; justice considerations, 6–9; pros and cons of laws against, 4–5, 6, 7–8

Prince, Erik, 89

Principles of Morals and Legislation (Bentham), 105

prisons, Bentham’s proposal, 35

procreation, 258, 259; see also surrogate pregnancies

prostitution, Kant’s view, 130–32

public schools, 264

Purple Heart: debate over awarding for psychological injuries, 10–12; honors sacrifice, not bravery, 11

racial discrimination, 175, 176–77

racial preferences, question of fairness, 173–74

Rangel, Charles, 83

Rau, Johannes, 208

Rawls, John, 140–66; background, 140; and difference principle, 151–53, 156–57; hypothetical social contract, 141–42; rejects complacence, 165–66; rejects moral desert as basis for distributive justice, 162–64; views on autonomous self, 214–15; views on freedom, 9, 242; views on good life, 9, 216, 217, 242, 248; views on justice, 9, 153–55, 217, 218, 241–42, 243; views on libertarianism, 153–54, 155; views on meritocratic theory of justice, 154–55, 160; views on role of religion in politics, 247–49

Reagan, Ronald, 61, 165, 249

reason: categorical vs. hypothetical imperatives, 117, 119–23; Hobbes’s view, 118; Hume’s view, 118; Kant’s view, 107–108, 118, 119–23

reciprocity: as ideal behind moral force in contracts, 145, 149–51; marriage contract example, 149

redistribution of income or wealth, libertarian objections to, 60

religion, role in politics: aspiration to neutrality, 246–51; Kennedy and, 244–45, 246, 247, 249; Obama and, 245–46, 249, 250–51; Rawls’s view, 247–49

reproductive technologies, 99–101

respect: comparison with Golden Rule, 124–25; Kantian view, 123; relationship to doctrine of universal human rights, 123

rights, 9, 12, 19

Robertson, Pat, 249

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 219

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: as defender of patriotism, 228–29; makes case for conscription, 87

Rowlandson, Thomas, 131

runaway trolley scenario, 21–24; Kantian view, 110, 111; utilitarian view, 110–11

salary differentials, 18, 157–58, 162–63

same-sex marriage, 253–60

SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test), 169–70

Scalia, Antonin, 205–206

self-ownership, 65, 66, 69–70, 71, 72, 103–104; and question of prostitution, 130

sensible realm, comparison with intelligible realm, 127–29

sex, casual, Kant’s case against, 129–32

Shakespeare, William, compared with The Simpsons, 54–56

Sharlot, Michael, 168

Simpsons, The, compared with Shakespeare, 54–56

slavery: Aristotle’s defense, 200–202, 203; as coercive, 203; conscription as, 79; question of U.S. apology and reparations, 210, 211–12; teleological view, 203

Smartt, Callie, 184–85, 186

smoking, Philip Morris cost-benefit analysis, 42–43

social contract: Hume’s view, 146–47; incompatibility with libertarianism, 142; incompatibility with utilitarianism, 141–42; and Kant’s view of justice, 138, 139; moral limits, 142–45; Rawls’s hypothetical, 141–42

Social Contract (Rousseau), 87

Socrates, 29

soldiers: and Afghan goatherds dilemma, 24–27; debate over awarding of Purple Heart to,

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