POLS 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Glaucon
15 May 2018
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Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Lecture 7
What’s left out?!
-What is left out? Morality
What constitutes right and wrong?!
Why individuals and groups act!
How individuals and groups should act!
Justice? Fairness? Fear of being a victim? !
*Politics tells us why individuals act and should act!
-Concern with Morality
Two Benefits!
Explains why people and groups act the way they do !
Provides guidelines about how people and groups ought to act!
-Expectational vs arbitrary leaders
Politicians who work for a partial interest exercise arbitrary power!
Exceptional leaders work for the common good of everybody!
-Two types of Rights
Positive Rights!
Freedom that allows individuals to pursue their interests!
Negative Rights!
The limit to others interfering in your pursuit of interests !
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Document Summary
*politics tells us why individuals act and should act. Explains why people and groups act the way they do. Provides guidelines about how people and groups ought to act. Politicians who work for a partial interest exercise arbitrary power. Exceptional leaders work for the common good of everybody. Freedom that allows individuals to pursue their interests. The limit to others interfering in your pursuit of interests. All men consent to enter into a mutual agreement in which they observe each other"s rights and responsibilities . *coat of armour is made out of people, signi es that the king is more powerful and is protected by the people. Only as powerful as the people make him. Two sides of the coin: justice (rights, responsibility (duties) What rights do you deserve from society? (health care in canada) What duties do you owe society? (pay taxes) Two views: laws and regulations, fear of victimization, for its own sake, mutual respect.
