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Instructor

Prof. Lucas Stanczyk

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Spring 2012

Level

Undergraduate

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Assignments

Quiz 1 Questions

Quiz 2 Questions

Quiz 3 Questions

Lecture Notes

Lecture 2 Notes: Classical Utilitarianism

Lecture 3 Notes: Communal Norms

Lecture 4 Notes: Revisionist Utilitarianism

Lecture 5 Notes: The Harm Principle

Lecture 6 Notes: The Utility of Speech

Lecture 7 Notes: The Utility of Liberty

Lecture 8 Notes: The Utility of Democracy

Lecture 9 Notes: Rights as side-constraints

Lecture 10 Notes: Against Redistribution

Lecture 11 Notes: The Entitlement Theory

Recitations

Week 1 - Procedural Stuff / Utilitarianism

Week 2 - Assessing and Reconstructing Arguments

Week 3 - Final Paper Tips

Week 4 - Nozick's Objection To Utilitarianism / Nozick's Positive View

Week 5 - Nozick on Redistribution and Just Holdings

Week 6 - Nozick's Negative and Positive Arguments

Week 7 - Motivations for Egalitarian Liberalism / Rawls' Principles / Veil of Ignorance

Week 8 - Equality of Opportunity / Rawls' Difference Principle

Week 9 - Justice and Private Life

Week 10 - Free Speech

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