PHIL 2060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Jury Duty, Thought Experiment, Double Consciousness

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 2060
• Professor: Karen Wendling

Document Summary

Positive privileges are unearned advantages that everyone should have. Sense of belonging, being seen as an individual rather than a representative of your group. Many things that are rights function have positive privileges. Everyone had the right to vote but black people were forbidden to vote (because of the literacy requirement) it is a right but it became a privilege. The(cid:396)e a(cid:396)e thi(cid:374)gs that a(cid:396)e(cid:374)"t (cid:396)ights (cid:271)ut should (cid:271)e like a se(cid:374)se of (cid:271)elo(cid:374)gi(cid:374)g a(cid:374)d (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g t(cid:396)eated like an individual. Things that everyone ought have (unearned advantages) negative privileges are unearned ad(cid:448)a(cid:374)tages that (cid:374)o o(cid:374)e should ha(cid:448)e. (cid:862)(cid:272)o(cid:374)fe(cid:396)(cid:396)ed do(cid:373)i(cid:374)a(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:863) (cid:894)mci(cid:895) Things like being preferred because of your group membership and not on merit. Conferred dominance, being preferred because of your group membership. Being able to ignore experiences / contributions and entire groups. If we think about privileges, we think of them as institutional or systemic things.