PPAS 3136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: John Stuart Mill, Egalitarianism, Natural And Legal Rights

• School: York University
• Department: Public Policy and Administration Studies
• Course: PPAS 3136
• Professor: James Simeon

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Public law 2 tutorial 1 january 12th, 2017. Ta office hours s ross 610 thursday 10-11:15. The history and development of rights consciousness movement in canada. Rights are subjective and they are our creation and as our creation we try to define within the framework of the state/where we reside. Created and/or bestowed upon us we create rights on the basis that. The issue of rights beyond capitalism and bourgeois create is no longer an issue for us. He believes this because a capitalist society creates inequality (cid:894)(cid:449)ho o(cid:449)(cid:374)s this/ (cid:449)ho does(cid:374)"t o(cid:449)(cid:374) this(cid:895). And the state is the instrument of the capitalist class. If you move from capitalist society to communism, we reach the level where we realize that we do(cid:374)"t (cid:374)eed the state to prote(cid:272)t or a(cid:272)(cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)odatio(cid:374), prote(cid:272)tio(cid:374) of the state. Dworkin: rights as capacity as humans we have the capacity to make plans and create a just society and overcome the disparities and inequalities.