POLS 264 Chapter Notes - Chapter None: Negative And Positive Rights
1 Feb 2017
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Discourse on the origin of inequality , the social contract jean-jacques rousseau: Leave state of nature to a common task preserves individual freedom. State acts and you act through the state positive rights (participation, rights to food, shelter) State of nature is equal and leaving is not always good. Motive power of the community has to be a kind of democratic. Rule by the power of the people as opposed to rule by the consent of the people. Common interest easy for it to be obscured by: faction, human diversity, Goes against his other principles, impractical rousseau says to downsize communities this has pragmatic concerns. Dealing with changing communities and defensive in general. Natural liberty = self ownership (you are your master) Moral liberty = moral concerns apply to you to be the thing that moral justice applies to making you morally relevant. Right of a citizen is the right to be a citizen with political power.
