Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Family Values, Robert Nozick, Communitarianism
5 Nov 2015
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Community 1: a view about what makes people"s lives worth living. Next: what does it mean to say that our society is liberal (10 and 11) and conservative (13 and 14). Liberalism is not neoliberalism: neoliberalism is sometimes called economic liberalism, neoliberalism defends unrestricted markets: laissez-faire economy, but liberalism only wants to defend individual freedom to form, revise and pursue ea conception of the good life. The right and the good: the right things we consider necessary to sustain oneself, the good things we consider a benefit, make it able to lead a good life. Neutrality of effects vs. neutrality of justification. What is perfectionist liberalism: one way of living one"s life is better than another. Case of family values": debate around porn, sexuality etc. There is one way of doing things, we must push people toward following it. Liberalism and reasonable disagreement: the fact of reasonable pluralism. Prostitution is not wrong, human trafficking is.
