POL320Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Civil Society
22 Mar 2017
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Ethical life as the unity of subjective and objective. If people think of themselves only as a persons with rights there will be conflict. Ethical life is reconciling duty which you owe to others and the rights that are owed to you. We are born into specific political communities. We are living in the modern world. Individuals need to be recognized as having their own rights. Not thought of as a separate individual. Family is supposed to prepare you for becoming a citizen. Civil society (differentiated disunity) estates, system of needs, conflicts and poverty. Take part in separate sphere where we pursue our self interest. Through the market our self interests contribute to the interests of everyone else.
