POLS 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Deontological Ethics, Statute, Consequentialism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 250
• Professor: Colin Farrelly

Document Summary

Andy sabl article that emphasizes forward looking morality future cooperation. Public act: must be done in public (not secretive) sending society a message; you must be willing to pay the price. Nonviolent: any interference with the civil liberties of others will detract from the civilly disobedient quality of one"s act. Motivation: must invoke a commonly shared conception of justice that underlies the political order (e. g. civil rights movement - all people are equal) Rules out appeals to your own private morality or religious doctrines. Concerns the kinds of wrongs that are appropriate objects of civil disobedience. 2nd condition: normal appeals to the political majority have already been made in good faith and they have failed. Legal protests and demonstrations have had no success. 3rd condition: more complicated; concerns conditions where more than one minority is justified in being civilly disobedient. *in most cases the first two conditions are sufficient.