FYSM 1209 Lecture Notes - Invisibility, Negative And Positive Rights, Jeremy Waldron
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It is crucial to know the facts data, factual analysis: moral assessment, philosophers ought to use this data to articulate a moral argument, it"s not just let"s get it in the charter" right to life. Committed to the importance to the right. Jeremy waldron homelessness (section b q 2: describes his argument as abstract, this may be an argument for philosophers talk about liberty as a principle, he wants to uncover a tension in liberal theory. Negative rights our understanding of liberty rights. He wants to do this in the case of us homelessness 3 million people. Libertarian: no state interference with individual liberty, we ought to learn about what it"s like to be homelessness. Eye-opening challenges your views on homelessness: experiences people actually have, aboriginal, don"t have access to clean water, pg 331 col. 2 (negative freedom) Allow those to act those as public agents deeply frightening fact.