Liberty, Equality, and Justice.
Date Submitted: 08/11/2001 16:22:45
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 3 pages (873 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 3 pages (873 words)
The accomplishment of total liberty can not be achieved without the complete satisfaction of equality. Sir Isaiah Berlin once said "If you have maximum liberty, then the strong can destroy the weak, and if you have absolute equality, you cannot have absolute liberty, because you have to coerce the powerful... if they are not to devour the poor and meek... Total liberty can be dreadful, total equality can be equally frightful." The yin and yang …
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…not be consistent with each other. Berlin's statement would be a true pick towards how society can not have both of two worlds. These two different attributes would not give part in what utopia is, as Rawls would have thought it could have. Even with the optimistic views of Rawls, some views can not be viewed without seeing the darker perspective to it. Thus, tying in with what Berlin would consider his 'dark perspective.'
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