PHILOS 1B03 Chapter Notes - Chapter Charles Mills: World War Ii, Neoliberalism, Thought Experiment
8 Nov 2016
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Readings 9 charles mills racial liberalism + pdf"s. Debates in political government usually focused on free market conceptions (neoliberal) Justifying norms and the existing order use a liberal framework: however, liberalism itself is rarely challenged. Within liberalism, there are rival perspectives on the moral foundations of the state and the basis of people"s rights: World war ii and experience of the death camps had and the global movement for decolonization afterwards encouraged a return to a natural rights tradition that seemed to put individual personal protections on a more secure basis. It is the language of rights and duties that is universal. For locke and kant"s contracts, they define the mainstream of the liberal tradition. Fairness = the overarching contract norm: moral equality of people in the state of nature demands an equality of treatment in the liberal polity they create, the state = protector of people"s rights.
