PHIL 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Motorcycle Helmet, Vivendi, Polyethnicity

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1010
• Professor: John Hacker- Wright

Document Summary

Value individual autonomy- believe in individual rights. Individual rights: negative: these are rights that you not interfere with me (ex: free speech, positive/ welfare: rights that you provide help, support to me in doing something (ex: education, medical care) Liberals intent to be tolerant of a variety of religious/ philosophical viewpoints. Incompatible with anarchism in as much as it affirms that a state is necessary for justice. Comprehensive doctrine: liberalism is a set of values that one affirms as true: autonomy is the highest value. Believes that liberal political ideas can be supported from a variety of standpoints: that people of different religious, philosophical, and moral viewpoints can affirm liberal political ideals and institutions without setting aside their values. Believes that reasonable people will come to form an "overlapping consensus": everyone appreciates the protections afforded by the equal liberties principle and the opportunities afforded by the difference principle, modus vivendi: a way of living.