Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Classical Republicanism, Positive Liberty, Negative Liberty
30 Mar 2017
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Saturday november 7, 10 a. m. - 12 noon. Global child mortality = six million deaths annually. Cosmopolitanism: (1) all human beings are fundamentally (morally) equal and (2) justice requires impartiality. One proposal: extend principles of social justice to the entire world (e. g. focus on the globally least advantaged). Three defences of justice-based duties to the near and dear: Societies are schemes of social cooperation; justice is about distributing the cooperative surplus. Value of shared nationality: identity based on shared history, language, culture. Negative liberty is freedom from , positive liberty is freedom to . Problem: any freedom is both a freedom from and a freedom to. There is only one concept of liberty (or freedom) X is free from y to do (or become) z . X is an agent, y is an obstacle or constraint, and z is a goal or end.
