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'The Bhagavad Gita', 'Contemporary Political Philosophy (1st edn)' and 'Nicomachean Ethics'
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25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 1. Slavery
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If everyone owned himself, that would prevent slavery [Kymlicka]
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Aristotle thought slavery is just if it is both necessary and natural [Aristotle, by Sandel]
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25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 4. Free market
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Libertarians like the free market, but they also think that the free market is just [Kymlicka]
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25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 5. Freedom of lifestyle
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The most valuable liberties to us need not be the ones with the most freedom [Kymlicka]
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25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 6. Political freedom
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Ancient freedom was free participation in politics, not private independence of life [Kymlicka]
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25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 2. Political equality
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Equal opportunities seems fair, because your fate is from your choices, not your circumstances [Kymlicka]
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Equal opportunity arbitrarily worries about social circumstances, but ignores talents [Kymlicka]
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25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 3. Legal equality
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Marxists say justice is unneeded in the truly good community [Kymlicka]
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25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights
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The Lockean view of freedom depends on whether you had a right to what is restricted [Kymlicka]
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25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 1. Basis of justice
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For Aristotle, debates about justice are debates about the good life [Aristotle, by Sandel]
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Justice corrects social faults, but also expresses respect to individuals as ends [Kymlicka]
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25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 2. The Law / c. Natural law
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Natural justice is the same everywhere, and does not (unlike legal justice) depend on acceptance [Aristotle]
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25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / a. Just wars
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There is no greater good for a warrior than to fight in a just war [Anon (Bhag)]
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25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / c. Teaching
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Intellectual virtue arises from instruction (and takes time), whereas moral virtue result from habit [Aristotle]
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25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 4. Suicide
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A suicide embraces death to run away from hardships, rather than because it is a fine deed [Aristotle]
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