LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Social Change, Surplus Labour, Agnosticism
21 Mar 2016
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Liberal poliical theories oten argue that society should be governed by the principles of liberty, equality, neutrality. Although liberals consider the self to be ontologically prior to community, they also recognize that we are social beings and that we live in condiions of interdependence. One of the key funcions of law is to play a facilitaive role, that is, to provide mechanisms for social interacion. Contract law has as its primary purpose the aspiraion to facilitate the free low of trade, as that will enable individuals to maximize their wealth and therefore pursue their own concepion of the good. Liberalism also recognizes that each individualized self, in her pursuit of her own privaized concepion of the good, may bump into other selves, Thereby potenially depriving other selves of the virtues of liberty and equality. Liberalism sees a further purpose of law, as the public manifestaion of the communal will, to be the mediaion/regulaion of these interacions.
