POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Common Good, System On A Chip
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Rawls the law of the peoples lecture 2. Two original positions reprise: a law of peoples (page 37) Basic answer to human rights + decent consultation hierarchy. Common understanding for the basis of our society. There is a spectrum of liberalism, there is a soc welfare and the conservative. Rawls is closer to the social welfare understanding of liberalism. Extending the position to international relations his social contract. Just as individual peoples we would agree on principles to live together. Just as liberal peoples would agree on international rules of conduct. Both are done behind a veil of ignorance. It is a just way of regulating relations between liberal peoples. In rawls there needs to be different typology of the states, more than just liberal and non liberal, there might be more. Peoples moralized concept rules by the same govt, share moral views, common sympathies, demand acknowledgment of their extinct. They will not impose their views on other peoples.
