Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Political Philosophy, Egalitarianism
16 May 2016
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His answer, in brief: the social order is fund upon convention. We are born free, evokes the idea of something like a state of nature. Imagine we are in a world where there is no political authority (known as a state of nature ) This is an argument of how the social contract is legitimate, not how it came to be (it is not a matter of history) You show that authority is not nature, and it is not force, it must be convention. The persuasiveness of the argument rests on whether this list consists of the only options. Argument for not nature (natural authority): [a]ll are born equal and free [and] none give up their liberty except for their utility. (sc i. 2) Disagreeing with the thought that we are born unequal. Egalitarianism (we are all in some sense morally equal) There are disagreements of what we are equal in.
