PHILOS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Positive Liberty, Negative And Positive Rights, Negative Liberty
20 Oct 2016
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Justice as historical & positive v. negative rights. Libertarians see patterned as a threat to our freedom. Not soulless and heartless - it"s not the job of the gov to address ex. It"s not the job of the gov" to intervene and do things for us people who should help out, if you care. Ex. if you care about education you will send your child to school. Do not need the gov" in the picture intervening. Patterned - impose a pattern on society or match a certain ideal/ make society fit a certain mold. Rawls - the criterion is principles deserving of our rational consent. The entitlement theory of justice in distribution is historical; whether a distribution is just depends upon how it came about . In looking at the history if a state of affairs to see if it is just, we look at:
