Original position

Rawls argues for the priority of the right to a conception of the good person (Rawls, 1766). The priority of the self to its ends supports the priority of the right to the good. People are free and equal; they are ascribed two moral powers connected “with the elements in the idea of social cooperation; namely a capacity of a sense of justice and a capacity for [the] conception of the good” (Rawls, 233). A sense of justice is the capacity to understand justice and cooperate, and the capacity for…

goods, such as power or wealth, among people unless the unequal portion is beneficial to the marginalized. Rawls’ discusses the concept of fair equality of opportunities and how an individual’s circumstances shouldn’t have an effect on the social positions available to him or her. Additionally, it is necessary to address other components such as an individual’s natural capacity because only…

of ignorance, for figuring out which social traditions were simply and which were out of line. The veil of ignorance foundation is as per the following: a lead is simply if everybody would consent to it given that they were made unmindful of their position in the public arena. That is, the fair society would be picked by individuals who had put aside contemplations of their own sex, riches, race, parentage, etc. In a perfect world this rule wipes out individual inclination from the decision and…

Introduction Justice means to do just, to do what is right. Egalitarians believe that justice can only exist within the coordinates of equality. Whether, in reality, this equality is given to all at every time so that justice could actually be done? Equality does not only mean equal representation of both victim and accused before court or equal opportunity of being heard. Equality, for justice, also means that both the victim as well as accused have a fair chance of representing their side of…

Now Make We Merthe is a collection of early Renaissance English carols and rounds sung by The Purcell Consort of Voices, Boys of All Saints, the London Brass Ensemble, David Munrow, Bernard Thomas, Michael Oxenham, Don Smithers, John Sothcott, Francis Grubb, Tess Miller, and Michael Morrow (Now Make We Myrth). This CD is a compilation of three different recordings. One recording was done in 1965, the next was in 1966, and the third was in 1969. The highlights from all three of these recordings…

Karel Capek published the book The War With the Newts in 1936. It was a satire on the policies of the Allies of Adolf Hitler. When a sea captain, Captain Van Toch, discovers a new species, he decided to train them to walk on their hind legs, and communicate. He also teaches them to dive for pearls. He receives money from the Dutch conglomerate to ship this new species, the Newts, to similar islands where pearl harvests have been impossible or unproductive. Eventually, it is determined that the…

mankind’s knowledge comes from experience and later categories. Aristotle used his four causes to categorize knowledge, the material cause, the formal cause, efficient cause, and the final cause. Calvin disagrees with Aristotle’s position on man’s blank state claiming, “Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul” (Mcneil 10). Calvin states since the fall, man is born in a state of rebellion not in a blank…

Anselm is best known for the arguments he provided in regards to the existence of God. He especially contributed to what today is known as the “ontological argument”, or an argument about the state of existing or being. Anselm provides many reasonable arguments for the existence of God, and had an avid ability to explain reason behind it. Through Cur Deus Homo, he tries to rationalize God’s method for saving the world through Christ’s death as satisfaction, Anselm has been able to offer a…

because it displays the “goodness” in not just all of Creation but God’s distinct love for human-kind as we were blessed to be made in his image, “In the first Creation narrative, Genesis 1, God celebrates what he has made and gives humankind a position of honor and responsibility,” (Shuster, 2013). This image includes the gift of rational thought, the capability to love, our spiritual attributes and our dominion over Creation. The Garden of Eden was a temple, a paradise of perfect harmony,…

clearly stated in the film, that Eve was going to stay on the estate, and was implied that Chance would as well. The estate would be their protected space and can be interpreted as Paradise. Without original sin, Adam and Eve would never have left the Garden. Conversely, due to the absence of original sin, Chance and Eve do not leave the estate, which can be deduced as the garden of Eden. This can be interpreted in a satirical manner because the estate is not a magnificent paradise. The estate…