Philosophy 2810F/G Lecture Notes - Injustice 2

• School: Western University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: Philosophy 2810F/G
• Professor: Jennifer Epp

Document Summary

Succession: definitions: the act of withdrawing from a political entity. The power to govern is shared between national and provincial state governments - many possible forms. Institutions and rules: argument for thesis a, urgent real world situations require an answer to question 2, answers to question 1 are not helpful in institutional circumstance. Instead they create perverse incentives: what is morally right in an individual case may or may not be morality right he made into an institutional rule - euthanasia. What is to be remedied: - threats to physical survival of group members by the state, state violations of hr, unjust theft of previously sovereign territory. Buchanans conditions for recognition: new state will respect hrs, cooperate to secure just terms - re: national debt, borders, provision of security, treaty obligations. Ascriptive primary right theories: nations: groups with common culture, history, language, sense of its own distinctiveness and perhaps a shared aspiration for constituting its own political unit.