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Justice and the Common Good
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The Aspiration to Neutrality cont.
Pros & Cons
Abortion, Stem-Cell Research and Same Sex Marriage
- separating religion and values from debate
Abortion & Stem Cell Research Debates
Sides of the arguments
Pro-Life
It's a...
Baby
Pro-Choice
Mass of Cells and Tissue
- It is not always possible to answer questions of justice and rights without defining the morality of a situation
- MAIN QUESTION- what do you feel about the implantation idea?
"It presupposes an answer to the controversy- namely that the pre-implantation embryo destroyed in the course of embryonic stem cell research is not yet a human being." (Sandel, 253)
Same Sex Marriage
1. Recognize only marriages between a man and a woman
2. Recognize same-sex marriage and opposite-sex marriage
3. Don't recognize marriage of any kind
The Aspiration to Neutrality
Justice and the Good Life
Barak Obama
John F. Kennedy
Justice
- means maximizing utility or welfare and creating the greatest happiness for the greatest number
religion is private
Christian
Justice and the
Common Good
- means respecting freedom of choice
invoked liberal neutrality
young
eloquent
inspiring
politician
-Libertarian views & Liberal Egalitarian views
rejects liberal neutrality
- involves cultivating virtue and reasoning about the common good
Roman Catholic
A Politics and the Common Good
" The challenge is to imagine a politics that takes moral and spiritual questions seriously, but brings them to bear on broad economic and civic concerns, not only on sex and abortion." (Sandel, 262)
1. Citizen, sacrifice and service
2. The mortal limits of markets
3. Inequality, solidarity and civic virtue
4. A politics of moral engagement