Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Positive Liberty, Classical Republicanism, Negative Liberty
7 Dec 2015
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Global child mortality: six million deaths annually. Half of them from easily preventable diseases. Cosmopolitanism: all human beings are fundamentally (morally) One proposal: extend principles of social justice to the entire equal and justice requires impartiality world (focus on the globally least advantaged) Three defenses of justice based duties to the near and dear disturbing the cooperative surplus. Societies are schemes of social cooperation; justice is about. Value of shared nationality: identity based on shared history, language, culture. Berlin distinguished negative liberty form positive liberty. Negative liberty is freedom from and positive liberty is. Problem: any freedom is both a freedom from and a freedom to. There is only one concept of liberty (for freedom) X is an agent, y is an obstacle or constraint, z is a goal or end. X is free from y to do (or become) z". The observable self, the rational or higher self,
