PHIL 4230 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: American Philosophical Association, Africana Philosophy, Political Philosophy

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 4230
• Professor: Omid Payrow Shabani

Document Summary

Ww2 encouraged a return of natural rights tradition that seemed to put individual personal protection on a more secure basis (after a century and half of utilitarianism as most political influencal. Not social welfare but natural pre social individual entitlements were judged to be superior and intangible foundation. Liberalism has been predominantly a racial liberalism in which conceptions of personhood and resulting schedules of rights, duties and government responsibility have been racialized. The contract: has been a racial one, agreement among white contractors to subordinate and exploit non-white, non-contractors for white benefit. The social ontology is classically individualist, and it demands the creation of a policy that respects the equal personhood of individuals and their property rights. Basic moral entitlement for the citizenry and then juridically codified and enforced by an impartial state. Economic transactions are correspondingly ideally supposed to be non-exploitive.