POLS 2310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Natural And Legal Rights
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Equality: in the most fundamental way people are the same because they are all human beings. Means no one is clearly superior and no one is clearly inferior. So no natural ruler - no obligation to obey. That looks like a c, that looks like an a that is arbitrary - making decisions without any ground. Natural rights: that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights alienate: to separate something. Moral permission morality - how you should behave, what you ought to do. Contrast to duties things one must do for others, for community. I may do whatever i think necessary to get these things. Nothing wrong with anything anyone does to secure life or liberty or to pursue happiness. Notion of rights is not a notion of limits, rather permission moral rights do not limit behavior, they permit it.
