Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Political & Legal institutions
(Political institutions &
systems)
- Product of human mind
- Foundational ideas
- Not fixed and unquestionable
- Evaluate and/or change them
- In the U.S.A., founders were
distinguished by (their own values)
- Wealth
- Political connections
- Military service
- Things they wanted the government to
embody or achieve
- They looked to:
- Plato
- Cicero
- Locke
- Hume
- Rousseau
- Montesquieu
- Our ideals and values
- Do and shape political values
- Identify problems with institutions
- Think how change might help and achieve those values
- Why should we have a State? Why
legal and political institutions?
- 4 answers have been considered taken from different approaches (Law,
Economics, Psychology, Political Science...)
- Happiness (peace, stability, human flourishing)
- Justice (Utilitarian views: all needs met to
allow the exercise of the 10 capabilities of
human beings)
- Libertarian Conception of Justice
- John Rawls (most influential view)
- Equality
- Freedom (negative and positive)
- State as threat to
individual freedom
- State as necessary element of
freedom for people