WDW101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Metanarrative, Small Victories, Moral Universalism
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Separation of law from people, it is out there far beyond us, above society. We need to take it off the mountain, put people back in. Defining features of canada-canada is multicultural, democracy fair and equal participation, democracy helps to think about substantial equality. law as part of society - context - law as it is lived different societies produce different kinds of law. Capitalism and democracy --> ongoing tension-> capitalism based on inequality , canada has 2 great defining ideas, produce electricity . undercurrent that goes in law all the time. Law is good and bad depending on how you look at it. In law an interplay between choice and constraint-you are either an actor, who is making the choices, or a victim. We need to move from idea that law is based on different morals. One way to deal with it is to take values and ideas out of it.