PHILOS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Total War, Positive Liberty, Negative Liberty
27 Feb 2017
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Militia standoff in oregon, they were on indigenous land. Members of a society, citizens of the law. Philosophical inquiry has a positive and negative interests: Positive: philosophical inquiry is interested in creating concepts in response to problems. Negative: philosophical inquiry is interested in critically evaluating its created concepts either in theory or as they become practiced. Philosophy is one of the only disciplines that questions itself. Is it the ability to enforce laws that makes something just and legal. What gives someone the right to inflict power. Who wields ultimate power/authority (monarchy, oligarchy, democracy) Tyranny- totalitarianism, tyranny of the majority, etc. The ability to can does not mean one should . An unjust law is no law at all . Natural right or social convention- relation to liberty- relation to responsibility. Private or public ownership- private or public force to defend it. For whose benefit- individual, community- un/equal distribution.
