POL101Y1 Lecture : RAWLS “THE LAW OF THE PEOPLES” LECTURE 1
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The law of peoples: 8 principles (page 37) The original position is rawls social contract, he beings with this. Moral and practical foreign policy for a liberal democracy. Kant & the three laws 1) constitutional, 2) international 3) cosmopolitan. Rawls more specific liberal democratic order & why his soc cont would generate the morally regulatory principles of a republican pol order. Liberal peoples would contract together to develop international right. What a just society would look like, we do this by putting ourselves behind a veil of ignorance (through experiment) Different poles of liberalism for doyle the conservative (freedom and rights) & the social welfare liberals. Rawls is the social welfare lib & his theory reflects these commitments. Liberal political order can be established by devils if they had reason. If peoples have reason, they do not have to good. Utopia either good place or no place. Idealists do not think their views are less realistic.
