POLS 351 Lecture 9: Liberal Theory week 9 lecture
10 Nov 2016
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2 uses of concept of equality in political thought: Foundational: that of describing people as equal beings. Distributive: that of justifying a more equal distribution of economic goods, social opportunities and/or political power. Egalitarians generally invoke the foundational sense to justify the distributive sense. Kantian claim: people share a dignity, autonomy to formulate moral laws, people should be treated as end in themselves. You have to be treated as an end in itself. Negel: argues that each one of us can adopt two distinct views about the world. On one hand, we have personal point of view. One life to live, and one life is important, and your life. You are always reasoning from your own life. Although that(cid:495)s true, we also know that other people have their lives and for them, their aims, plans are most important to them. In some way, we have our own goals, but objectively, we can recognizes that are lives are equivalent.
