PO301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Value Pluralism, Murray Rothbard
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Cohen"s challenge strong therefore because a non-moralised connection between povert and freedom - property distribution as a distribution of rights of interference. Value pluralism - fine because no higher metric, can"t appeal to a further goal, they are incommensurable. Example of disability or poverty can in some senses be seen as initiations of aggression - don"t exist absent of social interaction - the distribution of social advantage can therefore be seen as an aggression. More likely to be asked to focus on one specific justification for an obligation to follow the law than a general one. Can we extend morality to cover what seem to be mundane cases - perhaps through raz"s normal justification thesis - obliged since the state facilitates moral outcomes better than the individual does. Even then, raz concedes that the state might go beyond what might be justified - and significant dispute concerning what individuals might have "reason" to do.
