POLS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Contract, Positive Liberty
19 Oct 2017
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The normative" concerns of politics: justice and ethics. ( its a concern with how we think the world ought to be. Some of the greatest concerns in politics are normative, they are related to things like justice and ethics) a) justice and ethics -- closely related to politics. i) justice and the good life" ii) ethics and behaviour. Ethics= our actions, our behaviours, norms, regulations etc that govern our actions and help us interact with this idea of justice. Justice and the good life" (its about shaping the best future for you and society) a) ancient conceptions of justice: concerned with the good life, when they talk about justice they talk about people"s lives. Who or what we are as individuals, citizens for these ancients there is something that is quite foreign to us, which is the idea that the just society is a perfect re ection of the just citizen.
