PHI 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Political Liberalism, Social Class
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Person have dignity: not permissible to treat them as things, we owe them the treatment the moreal law applies to all persons- universal, they have right to set their own ends. Egalitarian tendency to rights: persons have rights as rational agents, not due to morally contingent factors. Rights tradtion inspired by kant yields equal distribution of: human rights- based on dignity, political rights, protection of laws & rights, access to political participation, responsibility to uphold duty and respect human dignity. Kant doesn"t answer: but rawls tries to address it. Social contract- bases social justice on the idea of free consent: john locke, jean- jacques rousseau, democratic revolution. John rawls: political philosophy, havard u, influenced by kantian rights ideas, and by utilitarianism, big influence in phi, poli sci, law, govt, a theory of justice, justice as fairness, political liberalism. For rawls justice combines: freedom- free consent to agreement, fairness- whatever we agree to is mutually benefitical.
