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1. Briefly list the main problems Martha Nussbaum gives for each of the three different approaches to distribution-the resource-based approaches, the preference-based approaches, and rights-based approaches.

2. Briefly describe why Nussbaum claims the capability approach to distribution is better, especially when dealing with an issue like gender inequality and the oppression of women.

3. In Alasdair MacIntyre's piece, what are the four problems in the way modern society is structured?

4. In light of these problems, how does MacIntyre suggest that his example of a community planning to build a school is revolutionary?

5. In the piece by Carolyn Merchant, what was the "organic worldview" prior to our modern times and what kinds of ethical relations to the earth did it foster?

6. According to Merchant, describe the energy sources and ultimate purpose of production in the organic worldview of premodern economies and then describe what kind of production replaced it-according to its differing energy sources and ultimate purpose-as trade expanded throughout modern Western Europe?

7. What do you think are some problems with viewing the whole of reality including human beings as machines?

8. In Julia Ott's piece what was the importance of the category of "chattel" that allowed for capital accumulation to expand at an unprecedented rate?

9. Prior to racialize ideologies on the basis of skin color how does Ott characterize social relations between African slaves and poor European wage workers and why did this relationship become a problem for the ruling class? What does she suggest as to when, how, and why racial ideologies were constructed and implemented within capitalist colonization?