PSCI 2302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Pediment, Direct Democracy, Secular Humanism
14 Apr 2016
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Reason = free will = humanity (subjectivity; the subject i ; all we have in now, future is an imagination, the past is a memory; all we have is the i the basis of our determination) Kant"s legal/rational cosmopolitan: all right is a matter of law (no rights in state of nature) Knows that the only laws that exist are positive laws (laws that are passed by humans through legislature they do not refer to a higher power. Rights stem from the constitution/ refer to positivist law: all human beings one rational; but political rights are for free men. To be a human being is to be rational. Different people have different levels and developments of rationality. Where all free men and their property come together for their common interest. There is a systematic knowledge of right or a science of right that can be studied and applied to a particular instances of legislation.
