PHIL 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Bakken Pipeline, De Jure

• School: CU-Boulder
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 2220
• Professor: Paul Bowman

Document Summary

Lecture 6 notes: smith and rawls, duty of fair play. (cid:373)ith disti(cid:374)guishes (cid:373)o(cid:396)al o(cid:271)ligatio(cid:374) to o(cid:271)ey the la(cid:449) f(cid:396)o(cid:373) (cid:862)la(cid:449)ye(cid:396)"s (cid:395)uestio(cid:374)(cid:863) Rawls argues there are some states currently in existence in which citizens of those states have an obligation to obey the law. A(cid:396)gued that (cid:373)o(cid:396)al o(cid:271)ligatio(cid:374) to o(cid:271)ey the la(cid:449) de(cid:396)i(cid:448)es f(cid:396)o(cid:373) (cid:862)p(cid:396)i(cid:374)(cid:272)iple of fai(cid:396) play(cid:863) Pfp says it would be unfair and wrong to accept the benefits of membership in certain kinds of enterprises. Problem: smith notes that very few people explicitly consent or promise to obey the laws of the government. A(cid:272)(cid:272)o(cid:396)di(cid:374)g to lo(cid:272)ke, (cid:449)e ta(cid:272)itly p(cid:396)o(cid:373)ise to obey the law when we. Ne(cid:449) p(cid:396)o(cid:271)le(cid:373): hu(cid:373)e"s t(cid:449)o (cid:272)o(cid:374)ditio(cid:374)s fo(cid:396) a(cid:374) a(cid:272)tio(cid:374) to (cid:272)o(cid:374)stitute ta(cid:272)it (cid:272)o(cid:374)se(cid:374)t: know what you are tacitly consenting to by performing the action, have a feasible alternative to performing the action. According to hume, neither seem to be met w/ respect to leaving the country.