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1) How might we apply a Lockean theory of property to the economic inequality we face today? Does a Lockean theory of property justify the economic inequality we face today? Why or why not? If not, what, if anything, would be required in order to make make the distribution of wealth just? Your answer should consider at least one objection to your view.
2) Compare and contrast Rousseau and Smith and their views on the division of labor and the economic inequality that ensues from it . Whose view do you find more persuasive and why? Your answer should consider at least one objection to your view.
3) Locke, Rousseau, Smith, and Marx agree that the role of the modern state is to secure and prote ct bourgeois private property. Pick two of these philosophers and explain their account of the origin and purpose of the modern liberal state, as well as whether or not they accord the state legitimacy. Would they each (respectively) find Canada today, with its laws regulating property, legitimate? Why or why not? Whose account do you find more persuasive and why?
4) Would a Millian version of utilitarianism consider the economic inequality we face today just? Why or why not? If not, what, if anything, would be required to make it just? Your answer should consider at least one objection to your view.
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