PHL 614 Lecture 1: January 15, 2018
28 Jan 2018
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Characterized revolution in beginning of 60s (civils rights movement: when liberation/equal rights movement are new it"s characterized as a mix of universal makes rights so powerful and effective and popular. In order to make this an equal society you have to have equal access. Laws restricted equal access to marriage could not be legal: canada rewrites marriage laws in 2003. Ignatieff is concerned with the outset of powerful double valence of rights: enhancing our right to be equal and protecting our right to be different i. e. kentucky clerk who refused to sign same-sex marriage license. Because she is a person of the state her religious freedom wasn"t counted and she was refusing the equal right to of same-sex couples who wanted to get married. Rights don"t promise you a good life: rights protect our autonomy to choose what we mean to live a good life, good life happiness.
