Question review

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