Reference no: EM133192620 , Length: Word count: 5 Pages
Assignment Task 1:
Q1. What is contract theory? Explain.
Q2. What is the state of nature? Explain. Which ethicist talked about this?
Q3. What is the prisoner's dilemma? Explain.
Q4. Explain civil society? Explain. Which ethicist talked about this?
Q5. What is the original position? Explain.
Q6. What is theveil of ignorance? Explain.
Q7. What is the liberty principle? Explain.
Q8. What is the difference principle? Explain.
Q9-11. Explain the three parts of the difference principle.
Q12-14. What three problems are there with contract theory? Explain.
Q15. Explain the two rebuttals/answers to the problems with contractual theory.
Assignment Task 2:
Q1. What reasons are given for why the Golden Rule endures? Explain.
Q2. What is the first basic tenet of the Golden Rule? Explain.
Q3. What is the second basic tenet of the Golden Rule? Explain.
Q4. What is reversibility? Explain.
Q5. What is the first criticism of reversibility? Explain.
Q6. What is the second criticism of reversibility? Explain.
Q7. What are the three ways the criticisms/problems with reversibility can be fixed? Explain.
Q8. What is the positive form of the Golden Rule? Explain.
Q9. What is the negative form of the Golden Rule? Explain.
Q10. How do the negative and positive forms of the Golden Rule compare? How are they viewed by scholars? Explain.
Q11. Explain Christianity's Golden Rule.
Q12. Explain the positive form of Confucianism's Golden Rule.
Q13. Explain the negative form of Confucianism's Golden Rule.