PO301 Lecture 5: Po301 lecture 5
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Removes environmental bias, which constitutes huge influences on our preferences right now, so allows us to get to the core of what we should be prioritising absent the narrow interests of maximising certain people"s goods etc. Emphasises the moral equality of humans, a factor which chimes with our moral intuitions that this is how it in some sense should be. Accounts for rationally self-interested individuals maximising utility to themselves. Relies on utility as an objective, a commonly understood framework for the good. Superior to utilitarianism - provides a framework for both respecting individual rights, and increasing the well-offness of all in society. Note that they have lexical priority - securing equal basic liberties is lexically prior to ensuring inequalities and so on are attached to offices open to all under feo and respect the dp. The objection that one needs food prior to the vote is gotten round by.
