PO101 Lecture 6: Freedom and Justice September 28, 2017
Document Summary
The world at a glance: german elections, trump, sport superstars and the american flag, spain: the government is cracking on the referendum vote. Is state surveillance going to help squash threats or threaten our basic freedoms. Isaiah berlin: negative liberty or freedom from , positive liberty or freedom to . Is freedom special: why should freedom be valued, is it a basic human right. Mill, utilitarianism and freedom: john stuart mill, argues that greater freedom leads to greater happiness, maximum possible freedom for the expression of ideas, even obviously fake ones. The liberty principle: each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive total system of equal basic liberties compatible with a similar system of liberty for all, 2. Alternate theories of justice: both rawls and nozick argue from liberal perspective, primarily concerned with then relationship between the individual and the sovereign state, not all theories of justice are limited this way.
