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Yale University PLSC 118 Moral Foundations of Politics LECTURE NOTES
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Moral Foundations of Politics Lecture 1/11 Notes ← Enlightenment how do you scientifically engineer a society to maximize human freedom / people’s happiness. ← Utilitarianism Maximize gre... atest happiness of greatest number • If you are able to pursue and accomplish this, human freedom will be greatest ← Marxist impersonal scientific principles to maximize freedom • “Politics are replaced by administration” • Scientific solution to moral dilemmas that divide us • People are equally free and not exploited ← Social Contract what agreement people would make if designing society for the first time • Who / how to make contract would come into question • This metaphor demonstrates how society should be organized ← ← AntiEnlightenment Resists that there are scientific principles to organize and human freedom is most important ← ← Architecttonic Theory These theories fail. No silver bullets. No guidelines that you can just copy and paste into society. • These philosophies described and investigated in the course are things to put in your bank of conceptual ideas • There is no, one size fits all theory to politics ← ← When and under what conditions should we obey our government? • What is a legitimate government? ←← The Eichmann Problem • Lt. Colonel is the Nazi Army o Responsible for shipping Jews to concentration camps o Initially released, escaped to Argentina, Israeli Secret Service sent commandos to capture and kill him • Brought back to Israel after capture and charged with crimes against humanity and the Jewish people • Political theorist covered story for the New Yorker o Question arises: When do we obey gov’t? When are we to oppose it? o What makes you uncomfortable about Eichmann? About his apprehension, trial, and execution? [Show More]
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