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25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 1. Slavery
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Slavery undermines the morals and energy of a society [Tocqueville]
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If everyone owned himself, that would prevent slavery [Kymlicka]
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25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 3. Free speech
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The liberty of the press is more valuable for what it prevents than what it promotes [Tocqueville]
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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 / 1. Grounds of equality
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It is admirable to elevate the humble to the level of the great, but the opposite is depraved [Tocqueville]
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25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 2. Political equality
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Equality can only be established by equal rights for all (or no rights for anyone) [Tocqueville]
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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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Justice corrects social faults, but also expresses respect to individuals as ends [Kymlicka]
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25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / a. Aims of education
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain an idea without accepting it [Aristotle]
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25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / b. Education principles
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Aristotle said the educated were superior to the uneducated as the living are to the dead [Aristotle, by Diog. Laertius]
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