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Upon completion of this chapter you should be able to:
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1. present some of the strengths and weaknesses of anarchism and of the different social contract theories of Hobbes and Locke |
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2. Compare, contrast, and evaluate the social contract theories of Hobbes and Locke |
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3. Critically evaluate various accounts of justice, including Plato's notion of a meritocracy, Aquinas' view of justice as conformity to natural law, Mill's utilitarian approach to justice, and Rawls' theory of "justice as fairness" |
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4. Contrast the attitudes toward the appropriate relation between the individual and the state expressed in the classical liberal perspective of Mill and in Marx's collectivist account |
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5. Explain the nature of civil disobedience, offer several arguments for and against it, and discuss the positions on it taken by Socrates, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr. |