PHIL 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Natural And Legal Rights, Limited Government, Economic Inequality
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What is her prescription, what is she advising that we think about, or keep in mind. So what her view means, what the implications of her views are, for what we are doing when engaging in politics. Liberalism: 1 overriding aim, to secure the political conditions that is necessary for the exercise of personal freedom. So this is the aspect of freedom that shklar is concerned about. Personal freedom; demarcated by the line between public and private spheres. B/c if there is no line, then the state can control your entire life, therefore no sense of true freedom. No true freedom, b/c public and private spheres are blurred; there is no sense of domain of which the individual is personalized. In order to know or assess if a regime is liberal, what is crucial is that the boundary be stable, and respected at all time. Finally, securing the political requirements of freedom.
