PHIL 322 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Liberal Democracy

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Philosophy Main
• Course: PHIL 322
• Professor: ALL

Document Summary

Anderson think this objection ignores how costly it is for most people to quit work because other jobs might no be available and other jobs may be similarly oppressive. Justifies that the right of exit isn t sufficient to justify the extent of private government in the workplace. Main claims: considerations of efficiency neither explain nor justify the scope of the private government and workplace contracts cant effectively limit private government as they are necessary open ended and workers lack the bargaining power to negotiate. When private government is limited, it is generally though a complex system of laws. Three varieties of liberty 1. negative: no one is interfering with actions 2. positive: option to effectively perform a range of options, given resources 3. republican: no one is dominating, subject to no ones arbitrary, unaccountable will. Workplace is a site of republican unfreedom of being subject to the arbitrary will of another.