Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Justice As Fairness, Robert Nozick, Economic Liberalism
9 Jul 2016
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An idea about how to do the right thing. A view about what makes people"s lives worth living. It"s a conception of the good life- lifestyle. Where power lies and how it is used. We are asking about the fundamental political (moral) values at the heart of our social and political lives: social justice, freedom, equality. Different conceptions of freedom, why is it valuable. Communitarian approach- understanding how and why we live in a libertarian society. Markets should be free, unrestricted, corporations have a right to be free. But liberalism only wants to defend individuals" freedom to form, revise, and pursue a conception of the good life. Liberals assume that people are selfish or egoistic. Fails to take seriously the fundamental value of community. Sometimes "community" is used as a code for "morality": people should care for each other, so we should reject egoistic liberal individualism.
