PAPM 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Value Pluralism, Negative Liberty, Positive Liberty
11 Feb 2016
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How to make strong analytical claim: can be done by a > b or b > a, but this doesn"t really help anyone understand. Can be done by not bringing the analysis together enough; Using comparisons of individual vs. communal, but this isn"t necessarily helping anyone understand the precise terms. Looking for a comparison of the two writers chosen. If you look back across the history of major works in ethics/political philosophy, berlin thought that you could find a commonality or common pattern in ideas as diverse as. Plato, rousseau, christianity way of thinking described as monism" = common to the outlooks of most of them, the belief that solutions to the central problems actually exist. And people can discover those solutions to the central problems so long as they tried hard enough. Also that choosing how to live is essential to every human being.
