Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Robert Nozick, Economic Liberalism, Neoliberalism
10 Dec 2016
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Liberals are mainly concerned with individual freedom. Liberalism is not neoliberalism pursue a conception of the good life. But liberalism only wants to defend individuals(cid:495) freedom to form, revise, and. Sometimes (cid:494)community(cid:495) is used as code for (cid:494)morality(cid:495): people should care for. But liberalism is a moral doctrine: it says the freedom of each person matters each other, so we should reject egoistic liberal individualism. Seven community inspired objections to liberalism: do liberals assume that people are selfish? equally. Any liberal state should protect and promote the freedom of individual citizens state, no redistributive taxation. One way to be a liberal is to be a libertarian like robert nozick: minimal. Conceptual point: every right has a correlative duty. To protect interests that are sufficiently important to put others under a duty: do liberals believe that values are subjective or relative. No, liberals say that everyone should respect individual freedom and equality.
