哈佛公开课：公正该如何做是好Readings.doc

Readings When you click the Amazon logo to the left of any citation and purchase the book (or other media) from A, MIT OpenCourseWare will receive up to 10% of this purchase and any other purchases you make during that visit. This will not increase the cost of your purchase. Links provided are to the US Amazon site, but you can also support OCW through Amazon sites in other regions. Learn more. This section contains documents that are inaccessible to screen reader software. A # symbol is used to denote such documents. This section contains the reading assignments for the course. Study questions are also presented. Students are encouraged to think about these questions as, and after, they read. Textbooks Friedman, Milton. Capitalism and Freedom. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780226264219. Nozick, Robert. Anarchy, State, and Utopia. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2006. ISBN: 9780465051007. Rawls, John. A Theory of Justice. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780674000780. Readings by Session Course readings. LEC?# TOPICS READINGS 1 Problems of Justice in a Democratic Society I. Utilitarianism 2 Hedonistic Utilitarianism Bentham, Jeremy. Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1996, chapters 1, 4, 13, and 17 (sec. 1). ISBN: 9780198205166.Study Questions- What is Benthams principle of utility or greatest happiness principle?- Bentham says that pleasure is the only thing that is good in itself. Is he right? What about knowledge? Or beauty? Or achieving the aims you set for yourself?- Can you make a utilitarian case against slavery? Consider three cases, and work out the argument for each: (i) slaves are only 10% of the population; (ii) slaves are a quarter of the population, but are members of a socially outcast group; (iii) the slaves are a majority of the population, and do backbreaking work in mines, but are very productive.- Is the legal e