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All the ideas for 'Content Preservation', 'Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity' and 'Creating the Kingdom of Ends'

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13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 1. External Justification

9382	Subjects may be unaware of their epistemic 'entitlements', unlike their 'justifications' [Burge]
	Full Idea: I call 'entitlement' (as opposed to justification) the epistemic rights or warrants that need not be understood by or even be accessible to the subject.
	From: Tyler Burge (Content Preservation [1993]), quoted by Paul Boghossian - Analyticity Reconsidered §III
	A reaction: I espouse a coherentism that has both internal and external components, and is mediated socially. In Burge's sense, animals will sometimes have 'entitlement'. I prefer, though, not to call this 'knowledge'. 'Entitled true belief' is good.

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics

18678	Maybe final value rests on the extrinsic property of being valued by a rational agent [Korsgaard, by Orsi]
	Full Idea: Korsgaard argues for the ultimate dependence of final value on the extrinsic property of being valued by a rational agent.
	From: report of Christine M. Korsgaard (Creating the Kingdom of Ends [1992]) by Francesco Orsi - Value Theory 2.3 n4
	A reaction: This hyper-Kantian view doesn't strike me as very plausible. Not philosophical theory which entirely cuts animals out of the story has much appeal for me.

25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights

19896	It is not a law if not endorsed by the public [Hooker,R]
	Full Idea: Laws they are not which public approbation hath not made so.
	From: Richard Hooker (Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity [1593], I s.10), quoted by John Locke - Second Treatise of Government 134 n1
	A reaction: Margaret Thatcher's Poll Tax, rejected by public rebellion, illustrates the point.

25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 2. The Law / b. Rule of law

19891	Rule of law is superior to autonomy, because citizens can see what is expected [Hooker,R]
	Full Idea: Men saw that to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery. This contrained them to come unto laws wherein all men might see their duty beforehand, and know the penalties of transgressing them.
	From: Richard Hooker (Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity [1593], I s.10), quoted by John Locke - Second Treatise of Government 111 n1
	A reaction: One British school has a single rule, that pupils 'shall always treat other people with respect'. Presumably the rulers, as well as the pupils, must decide when this is transgressed. The rule of law may be preferable.

25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 2. The Law / c. Natural law

19897	Human laws must accord with the general laws of Nature [Hooker,R]
	Full Idea: Laws human must be made according to the general laws of Nature.
	From: Richard Hooker (Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity [1593], III s.9), quoted by John Locke - Second Treatise of Government
	A reaction: The point simply seems to be that they won't get assent from the public if they are not in accord with natural justice. Positivists say you can make any damned law you like.

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws

17005	Natural things observe certain laws, and things cannot do otherwise if they retain their forms [Hooker,R]
	Full Idea: Things natural …do so necessarily observe their certain laws, that as long as they keep those forms which give them their being they cannot possibly be apt or inclinable to do otherwise than they do.
	From: Richard Hooker (Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity [1593], 1.3.4), quoted by Marc Lange - Laws and Lawmakers 1.2
	A reaction: Cited by some as the beginnings of the idea of 'laws of nature', but it is striking that Hooker says the laws are controlled by 'forms' (which are Aristotelian essences). This is an essentialist view of laws, not a regularity or divine power one.