POLC40H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Al-Farabi, Zakat, Leninism
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Key terms: natural law/right, positive or common law (nomos and phusis) (ius natural, ius civile, ius gentium new and traditional humanitarianism common morality, r2p: most influential (lecture revolving around humanity, a distinct category, origins in the west and meddi. Still exists in biology: seeds, its hard to not think of these seeds and what they will become when you see them: many different notions of natural right but they all share the commonality of nature being teleological, in most greek ancient writings, a tension exists between the telos of the city (community), and the telos of an individual. Rules we can discover from nature (ie the cosmos) that can tell us how to live our lives: those rules should essentially be the same, people live in different kinds of societies with different laws, this creates a tension because there should be laws that are all the same.
