ALL1430-C First 6 Weeks 3:00-4:20 Start Date -Sep
Grossman 106 Limit 25
Does justice demand that we redistribute income or other resources from some citizens to others who are less well-off? We all have notions of what justice requires, but it is hard to get a very clear idea of why we think the way we do. In this course, we will compare five basic principles thought to justify redistribution: liberty, equality, utility, sufficiency, and something called (maxi)minimality, which means helping the least well-off as much as possible. Is one of these values fundamental to questions of economic justice, or should we attempt to blend or balance them in some way? How should such issues be decided in a free society? This six-week course will be run as an informal seminar, with at least as much discussion as lecture. Readings will be sent out by the coordinator.
Coordinator: Theodore Everett 
Ted is Professor Emeritus at SUNY Geneseo, where he taught philosophy for 25 years before retiring with his wife to Brewster. This will be his second course at ALL.
Here Ted discusses his previous course “Understanding Disagreement.”
