POL 4275 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Negative And Positive Rights

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Significant differences between citizens on fundamental issues. Comprehensive moral doctrines - expectation that not everyone shares the same values. Maximal pluralism - allow people to have diversity of morals as much as possible. Normative ideal - what we all share, commitment to this (why we"re liberals) A) practical - impossible to accommodate everyone. B) conceptual - in principle, not possible to accommodate everyone. Conceptually incoherent to affirm all because some points of view rely on excluding others. Modern debate - hurts others, position of them is not to accommodate the rest of us. Positive duty: obligation to support or affirm. First amendment imposes negative duty on government; no positive duty to provide platform. Charles taylor points out how modern liberal politics requires a positive duty to affirm individual identity (from society) He wants to give us theoretical background for if you"re not recognized, it"s a moral injustice.

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