POLS 250 Lecture Notes - Homo Economicus, Moral Agency, Authoritarianism
16 Sep 2013
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Offers you guidance on how you are to live your life. State: obligations to respect institutionalized properties ie. right to property. Many of our actions can be explained because we have thee identities in the abovementioned institutions. Secret slide 2: hegel on freedom part 1. Free agent is one who limits himself, but in this other is with himself . Secret slide 3: hegel on freedom part 2. Freedom as rational self-determination: captures the two elements mentioned above. If you went with just one of them, you are an empty moral agent on the one in which you are missing. Different from contract theory locke: what form of government would free and equal people consent to. There is an account that there are free people and they consent t a free government. Hegel: social constitutions play a vital role in shaping us as free and rational individuals.
