PHILOS 2N03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Egotism, Thought Experiment
28 Sep 2017
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5 short answers and 1of 2 long answers. Take home assignment not until week wednesday. John locke & human rights theory: the freedom from absolute, arbitrary power, is so necessary to, and closely joined with a man"s preservation, that he cannot part with it . You have to be free from tyranny. Human beings are fragile, so we must be protected in order to not be miserable. Not following general principles like kant, instead list of things you cant do. Undhr, this is what you need (person kit: if action would violate human rights, do not do it, negative duty. Is there a positive duty: skeptical (bentham, rights are the moral callout of people who have no theory to explain why they"re important) bastard brute of monsters -rights. The language of natural rights require nothing but a hard front, a hard heart, and an unblushing countenance.
