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The Philosophical Journey, 2/e
William Lawhead, The University of Mississippi
The Search for the Just Society

Chapter Objectives

Upon completion of this chapter you should be able to:

1. present some of the strengths and weaknesses of anarchism and of the different social contract theories of Hobbes and Locke

2. critically evaluate various accounts of justice, including Plato's notion of a meritocracy, Aquinas' view of justice as conformity to natural law, Mill's utilitarian approach to justice, and Rawls' theory of "justice as fairness"

3. contrast the attitudes toward the appropriate relation between the individual and the state expressed in the classical liberal perspective of Mill and in Marx's collectivist account

4. explain the nature of civil disobedience, offer several arguments for and against it, and discuss the positions on it taken by Socrates, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr.








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