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Ideas for David Fair, Georg W.F.Hegel and Amartya Sen

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25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 1. Slavery
21789 Slaves have no duties because they have no rights [Hegel]
22776 Slaves are partly responsible for their own condition [Hegel]
21783 State slavery is a phase of education, moving towards a full culture [Hegel]
21784 Slavery is unjust, because humanity is essentially free [Hegel]
25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 5. Freedom of lifestyle
21778 True liberal freedom is to pursue something, while being free to cease the pursuit [Hegel, by Houlgate]
21779 People assume they are free, but the options available are not under their control [Hegel]
23271 The goal of the world is Spirit's consciousness and enactment of freedom [Hegel]
20995 Capabilities are part of freedom, involving real opportunities [Sen]
20998 Freedom can involve capabilities, independence and non-interference [Sen]
25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 6. Political freedom
22085 Freedom requires us to submit to a family, or a corporation, or a state [Hegel, by Houlgate]
25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 1. Grounds of equality
20997 The need for equality among people arises from impartiality and objectivity [Sen]
20996 All modern theories of justice demand equality of something [Sen]
25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 4. Economic equality
22798 Money is the best way to achieve just equality [Hegel]
25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights
21781 The absolute right is the right to have rights [Hegel]
22783 Rights imply duties, and duties imply rights [Hegel]
20988 Freedom from torture or terrorist attacks is independent of citizenship [Sen]
25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 4. Property rights
21782 Man has an absolute right to appropriate things [Hegel]
22773 Because only human beings can own property, everything else can become our property [Hegel]
22774 A community does not have the property-owning rights that a person has [Hegel]
22775 The owner of a thing is obviously the first person to freely take possession of it [Hegel]
25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 1. Basis of justice
20980 You don't need a complete theory of justice to see that slavery is wrong [Sen]
20978 Practical justice concerns not only ideals, but ways to achieve them [Sen]
20985 Our institutions should promote justice, rather than embodying it [Sen]
20994 We must focus on removing manifest injustice, not just try to design a perfect society [Sen]
21000 If justice needs public reasoning, which needs democracy, then justice and democracy are linked [Sen]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / a. Just wars
22802 Wars add strength to a nation, and cure internal dissension [Hegel]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / a. Aims of education
22786 Children need discipline, to break their self-will and eradicate sensuousness [Hegel]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / d. Study of history
21987 History is the progress of the consciousness of freedom [Hegel]
23270 We should all agree that there is reason in history [Hegel]