PHIL327 Lecture Notes - Arab Spring, Natural Justice, Blackletter
19 Jun 2014
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L3 laws: received benefits argument (cid:224) plato"s crito: if you"ve received benefits from a society & its laws, you owe it gratitude and obedience (paternal analogy, education, your marriage etc. ) (cid:224) but: gans objection , voluntarism & consent to obey (= contractual agreement) But: many critical qs about both: consent being informed & rational, consent once = consent always, staying = consenting , just institutions argument (cid:224) rawls: as a rational & morally responsive person, you have moral reasons to obey a just institution. Offers a clear and principled rationale for legal reform (domestically & internationally) : this law l1 is unjust and thus requires changing into more just l2. (notion is that l1 is unjust that it demands a more just law (cid:224) l2, what can the positivist give us? (cid:224) the dictator changed his law, its just a.
