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Revision note: Justice and Care: Social Contract, Rawls, Nozick, Sen and Gilligan

  • Hobbes, Leviathan 1651 (nasty, brutish, short); Locke, Two Treatises 1689 (life, liberty, property; consent); Rousseau, Social Contract 1762 (general will)
  • Rawls, A Theory of Justice 1971: veil of ignorance; equal liberty; fair equality of opportunity; difference principle
  • Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia 1974: entitlement, minimal State, tax = forced labour
  • Sen: capability approach, Development as Freedom 1999, Idea of Justice 2009 (niti vs nyaya), Nobel 1998, HDI 1990
  • Nussbaum: 10 capabilities; Gilligan 1982, Noddings 1984: ethics of care
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