PRESENTATION OUTLINE
UNSTABLE STATE
- Equality of ability to harm
- Desire to satisfy our goals
State of Nature
No reliable expectations about others' behavior - except that they will follow own inclinations.
Social Contracts
Justice and Injustice
PURPOSES
- To keep society together
- To ameliorate human suffering
- To promote human flourishing
- To resolve conflicts of interest in just ways
- To assign praise and blame; reward and punishment
Reciprocity
The practice of exchanging things with others for mutual benefit
INTERNALIZE MORAL STANDARDS
