PHI 2183 Lecture Notes - Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld, Communitarianism, Equal Opportunity
21 Apr 2014
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Incommensurability - claim that there are different goods or values which can"t be measured on a single scare (in principle) so you don"t know how to compare. 1. 1 people are supposed to have fundamental rights of liberty, which act as side constraints . 1. 2 these are supposed to be equal rights (your right to liberty is as absolute as mine. 1. 3 but people do not have equal liberty unless they have equal opportunity. 1. 4 equal opportunity requires some degree of equal resources. (there are different ways to bring about equal opportunity ). It may also require limiting inheritance or the right to bequeath. However rich people can purchase goods that poor people cannot. Right to equal liberty > what he bases his argument on. Rst order rights - constitutional immunities protect rst order rights we have rights not to have our rst order rights changed by government.
