We now resume our sessions with Professor Jay Drydyk, and meet tomorrow to read Martha Nussbaum’s 'Social Contracts and Three Unsolved Problems of Justice’ (pages 9-35).
Date: 7 February 2012 (Tuesday)
Time: 3.00 pm - 5.00 pm
Venue: Library, Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi
Time: 3.00 pm - 5.00 pm
Venue: Library, Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi
Reading/lecture questions:
- What challenges do Sen and Nussbaum pose for theories of justice?
- What is Nussbaum’s argument against social contract theories?
- What are the assumptions she attributes to the social contract tradition?
- What problems result from those assumptions at the ‘frontiers of justice’?
Discussion questions:
- Is it not sufficient to treat disabled people with benevolence rather than justice?
- Why can’t a just world simply be a world made up of just countries?
- As Sen noted, equality claims can by made for people because they deserve equal consideration. But if we gave fully equal consideration to all other species, we would not eat any of them, and we as a species would cease to exist. So does it make any sense to discuss justice for other species? Would it be self-defeating for humans to act justly in relation to other species?
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