PHIL 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Fallacy, On Liberty, Political Freedom
10 Aug 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Natural talents: natural primary goods health, intelligence, vigor, imagination not affected by social institutions, not distributed by them, social primary goods goods that are distributed by social institutions income, wealth, opportunities, rights, liberties, powers. The original position: we are rational, we desire a set of primary goods wealth, opportunity, liberties, and self-respect. It misrepresents the position of the opposing side in which a way that the opposing position appears obviously false or ridiculous: an example: people who are in favour of abortion think its okay to commit cold blooded murder". Angela says that straw person arguments are bad (van arragon, lecture, oct. 23rd, 2014). 1 mill likes apples (mill, 223) or (mill, on liberty , 223) 1john stuart mill, on liberty , introduction to social and political philosophy, eds. Sbani and monique deveaux, (don mills: oxford university press, 2014), p. 193. Further references to this text will be noted parenthetically in text as mill followed by page number.
