Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Moral Relativism, Joseph Raz, Michael J. Sandel
28 Dec 2017
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A central liberal claim pursue a conception of the good life. 1. liberals emphasize rights rather than duties or responsibilities equal, an x"s well-being is a sufficient reason for holding some other person(s) to be under a duty outcomes that result from their own free choices under duty. It"s not that values are subjective in the sense that they are simply a matter of individual taste. Liberalism us a doctrine about what the state can do to, and for its citizens. Free and equal citizens make and help each other do things, this amounts to saying that it is a doctrine about how people should treat one another as citizens. The state provides a framework within which people live their lives. Those lives may centrally involve distinctively communal activity, participation in shared practices and valued membership of particular communities that treats citizens justly sense that it is common ground between citizens and it applies solely to the political sphere.
