PP110 Lecture Notes - Fornication, Harm Principle, Political Philosophy
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Intro to political philosophy and mill: what is political philosophy, the harm principle. Three key points: the government is said to be the soul of the body political ( because the soul is sovereign over the physical body. Sovereignty supremacy with respect to power and rank : concord and sedition are supposed to correspond respectively, to health and sickness. Key: the body politic can be more or less healthy depending on the relation of its part to one another: the body politic was created by fiat. That is , we made it: it is not god given or biologically necessary or anything. That means we can recreate the state anyway we see it. Do citizens have a moral obligation to obey the laws that governments create, even unjust laws. What is the fairest way to distribute society"s resources. Indiviudals should be considered free to express themselves any way they see fit.