PHIL 335 (100% correct answers)

Brenkert correct answers Veil of Choice; Distributive Justice Argument Brenkert Gun Argument correct answers Gun manufacturers are partially morally responsible for harm caused by guns if and only if the following conditions are met: the guns are used to harm people, they advertise and encourage misuse of guns, they neglect the foresight of their guns and don't think of a safer design. Veil of Choice correct answers Those who buy guns choose how to use them, gun manufacturers don't. Those who choose how to use a gun are the only ones responsible. So gun manufacturers are not responsible. (Brenkert). Distributive Justice Argument correct answers If someone else benefits from someone else's wrongdoing, they are also responsible. Gun makers are not being responsible for the outcomes. So they are being unjust. (Brenkert). Hobbes correct answers State of Nature; The Social Contract;; The Fear Argument; Rights to All Argument State of Nature correct answers the natural state of man if we never entered into a civilized society, life would be solitary, nasty, brutish, and short. Would lead to war, not conducive to self-preservation. (Hobbes). The Social Contract correct answers giving equal rights to others, agreement among them to form the society in which they live. (Hobbes). Fear Argument correct answers The benefits of society are honor and profit, which can be obtained by cooperation under the social contract, but obtained in greater amount by the State of Nature. SON drives us to maximize honor and profit. Natural greed drives us to dominate rather than cooperate from a social contract. But we instead cooperate rather than dominate. The only explanation as to why we cooperate is that we are afraid. If this fear was removed, then we would dominate rather than cooperate under a social contract. Society is based on mutual fear rather than mutual will. (Hobbes). Rights to All Argument correct answers Everyone has a right to preserve their own life. In SON, a right to self-preservation entails a right to what it takes to preserve your life. In SON each person is their own judge of what is needed for self-preservation. In SON, everyone thinks that every action is needed to preserve their own life. In SON, to have all and do all is lawful for all. (Hobbes). Rawls correct answers The Original Position; The 2 Principles The Original Position correct answers our contingent attributes give us inequalities in life. Thought experiment was to let people determine the rules of their society. To consider everyone as equals, they must pass through the Veil of Ignorance. This gets rid of all of their current