LS386 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Civil Disobedience, Duat, Paga
7 Mar 2017
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John rawls, a theory of justice, p. 319. Agenda: review and background, constitution exercise, rawls, habermas, recap and next class, review and background. Foundational aspects of what it means to govern a society. General will (the idea that it represents the populous) / overlapping consensus ( how that consensus of a shared will comes to be) Procedural and substantive fairness ( your actual rights and freedoms and how you can go about protecting them) We have a role to play, the constitution has to reflect some shared principles of what rawls calls common human reason. Unjust theory of justice our reading started ono later pages you don"t know where you"re going to end up so you want to ensure the greatest fairness for the greatest number of people liberal-egalitarian position. Then you think they"re just if you agree that they"re just then you"re more likely to obey it.
