Conclusion: The cult of "the great man",
which epitomizes individualism, lacks the social basis for a life of moral
virtue.
EP1. In today’s society, very few political
communities have a consensus on their view of justice (244).
EP2. Our individualistic culture poses the
greatest threat to the concept of justice (244).
IP1. Justice is an important factor within
our society.
EP3. One person/group can only receive
justice at the price of another person/groups justice (246).
A.
No
principles are neutral (246).
EP4. Claims of necessity and claims of
entitlement in the social/political field cannot be debated in a truly neutral
way (246).
EP5. Rawls- Justice must come from a veil of
ignorance (246).
A.
Instead
of individualism, society should aid the least advantaged people (247).
B.
The
community should have future generations in mind, (247).
C.
Justice
is more important than political efficiency (247).
EP6. Rawls
asserts that those worst off in society are those with a lack of income, wealth
and other goods (248).
IP2: People want wealth and other goods.
EP7. Nozick
sees equality through entitlement (248).
EP8. We are
never truly behind a veil of ignorance (249).
A.
Everyone would feel entitled to having their
needs met.
EP9. Neither
Rawls or Norzick focused on who actually deserved justice. (249).
IP3. Worthiness and entitlement are
different things.
EP10. Both
Rawls and Norzick see people as valuing individual interests before community interests
(250).
EP11. The
primary objective when people are put together in a social setting is personal safety.
EP12. People
base their idea of what a good social contract is off of what they would
prefer (251).
EP13. When
using Nozick’s idea of entitlement, almost no land can be considered legitimate
because it was at one point taken from someone (251).
A.
Stolen land is not morally right.
EP14. Instead
of moral consensus, out society has a concentration on conflict (251).
EP15. Supreme
court decisions are not in consensus with a single view of justice (251).
IP4. The Supreme Court is a model of what
society should be.
EP16. The
modern state does not have a true vision of patriotism (254).
A.
Cannot have patriotism with no consensus of moral virtue (254).
