Review Guide sheet PHIL 4359
Provide 3-4 sentences each on these questions or statements. Be specific with your answers
1. The historical versus time-slice debate in Rawls distributive justice
2. Marxist criticisms of the liberal – capitalist order
3. Marxist theory of history
4. The historical versus time-slice debate in distributive justice
5. Marxist proposals for revolution and the abolition of private property
6. The rise of fascism in the 20th century
7. Fascism and atomism in modern societies
8. Hannah Arendt on totalitarianism and fascism
9. Leo Strauss on the history of political philosophy and the need for modern virtue
10. Leo Strauss on the way political philosophers wrote in pre-liberal societies
11. Herbert Marcuse on repressive desublimation
12. What was Yoder political message of the Gospels
13. John Howard Yoder on the Jubilee idea as the essence of Jesus’s political message
14. John Howard Yoder on pacifism as embodying the political ideals of the new kingdom
15. Discuss Christianity and political philosophy
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On each of these questions or assertions, write 3-4 sentences. Be specific in your responses.
1. In Rawls’ distributive justice, the historical versus time-slice issue
2. Critiques of the liberal-capitalist order by Marxists
3. Marxist historical theory
4. In the context of distributive justice, the historical versus time-slice issue
5. Proposals for revolution and the abolition of private property made by Marxists
6. Fascism’s ascent in the twentieth century
7. In modern civilizations, fascism and atomism
8. Hannah Arendt on totalitarianism and fascism
9. Leo Strauss on the history of political philosophy and the need for modern virtue
10. Leo Strauss on the way political philosophers wrote in pre-liberal societies
11. Herbert Marcuse on repressive desublimation
12. What was Yoder political message of
