POL 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: James T. Kirk, Nanny
7 Jan 2016
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Critics claim that justice is a compromise, that each person the just included, would steal if provided the chance. This is so b/c deep down we"re selfish or we seek our gain even when others might be harmed. The most just person wouldn"t lie, cheat, etc. The popular view regarding human nature is wrong. 5: our human nature and flourishing rest on a person being well ordered by reason. The best life we can know the truth: the people flourished by those who have a cultivated reason. And if 6 is true, the most just person wouldn"t cheat, steal, etc and people lead by such. Ruless would have little reason to do so as well. Locke: freedom isn"t an absence of rules, it requires the right kinds of rules that are truly free. Plato: soul being led with reason that"s supposed to show us a different order of human nature that is good and something desirable about it.
