PHIL 157 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Conflict Resolution, Public Health
25 Aug 2016
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What is rational for us to will if we are going to barging? o. Social and economic inequalities are only ok when they are the outcome of a fair came o. Can only be tolerated so far as to distribution of benefits and burdens of social life (material goods: any alternative distribution would make the worst off, worst off still. Used to measure how well we are doing: measuring moral worth of various institution. It is only to the basic structure of political community that these principles will be applicable. Basic structure of society - only thing that will apply. Legal opposition as to what the state can do. Prevention of violence o o: national defense o. Burdens of social life - paying taxes o. State has moral cohesive authority to take some of your money. Ways in which our freedom in underwritten. Freedom is a submission to the authority of reason that allows us to be autonomous (kant)
