POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - People Matters, Thomas Hobbes, Defensively Equipped Merchant Ship
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Definitive ones: 1) republican right; 2) international right; 3) cosmopolitan right. First supplement, nature"s guarantee: angels, devils, and institutional design. Kant: the state is not justified as an interest bargain, this is how the state first comes about, but it is justified on grounds of our freedom. Unlike walzer, who refuses to get to foundations, kant is like hobbes in that he wants to get down to the foundations. Progress: there is a progress toward the better . Change alone is not progress, because things can change for the worse. What does it mean progress towards something better. We are going somewhere, there is an end stage. Some of the less than social tendencies are driving the progress; two steps forward and one step back but we are still going somewhere. Reason leads to freedom, freedom is tied to dignity. Human beings are unique because they have reason and speech. More reason more morality more rationality.
