Question review
Review Guide sheet PHILOSOPHY
Provide 3 – 4 sentences each for each question
1. Rawls and distributive justice- justice as fairness
the original position idea
2. the two principles of Rawlsian justice
3. criticisms of Rawls
4. Nozick and distributive justice
5. the historical versus time-slice debate in distributive justice
6. the entitlement theory of distributive justice
7. Marxist criticisms of the liberal – capitalist order
8. Marxist theory of history
9. Marxist proposals for revolution and the abolition of private property
10. Karl Marx background
11. the rise of fascism in the 20th century
12. fascism and atomism in modern societies
13. Hannah Arendt on totalitarianism and fascism
14. Leo Strauss on the history of political philosophy and the need for modern virtue
15. Strauss on the way political philosophers wrote in pre-liberal societies
16. Herbert Marcuse on sophisticated liberal – capitalism
17. Marcuse on repressive desublimation
18. Christianity and political philosophy
19. Yoder on the political message of the Gospels
20. Yoder on the Jubilee idea as the essence of Jesus’s political message
21. Yoder on pacifism as embodying the political ideals of the new kingdom