PHL271H1 Lecture : liberty
Document Summary
Introduction to liberty and equality: our questions, relevant charter rights. Mill: what kind of liberty matters: some negative liberties, positive liberty to pursue our own good in our own way. Intro to liberty and equality: this course merges case law and how theoretical problems arise. That legal writing tends to get bogged done to doctrinal interpretation www. notesolution. com: keep our focus on why we care about these values, very broadly speaking philosopher have delineated two types of liberty, positive and negative. Should we prefer certain kinds of negative liberties or should the state t ry to promote positive liberty: when you get the question to equality we don"t even agree on what we are talking about. Some think that equal liberty is respect some thinks it equal resource distribution. Include rights of liberty and equality: under liberty: fundamental freedoms: religion, peaceful assembly, section 7: legal rights: right of life and liberty, how should we understand these liberties.
