Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Joseph Schumpeter
2 Nov 2016
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The principle of fairness: objects to burden sharing, can"t justify limits to individual freedom, condemns free-riding, condemns free riding. Universal rights to vote and stand for office. Elected representatives make decisions (ancient athens, 3500 people there and just showed hands by what they believe in. Elections are free, frequent and fair (you can not be coerced into voting, every four years *at least in canada* Freedom of speech; independent media (sources of information are free, not just the government telling us what they want to hear) Intrinsic reasons (means in itself, something valuable about democracy in itself) Auto = self, nomos = law or rule (both ancient greek terms) Wants to develop an idea of democratic legislation that embodies freedom as autonomy. Freedom is not the capacity to do what we want, instead freedom is obedience to laws we give ourselves.
