"Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com>
>CB: What is the relationship between rights and freedoms ? What is the
>relationship between rights and the state ?
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Since you asked . . .
If Rawls is right,
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CB: "If", meaning you are uncertain, agnostic, skeptical, lukewarm about this ? Do you believe it enough to act on it ?
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the correct principles of justice make the right to equal, maximally extensive freedom, first of all negative freedom, prior over other rights, including fair equality of opportunity and realtive economic equality. The state is supposed to guarantee basic rights by protecting them in law.
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CB:
So, in your scheme , there is no contemplation of the end of the state,as in Marx's theory ? You don't see the state ending with the end of class exploitative society, as Marxists do ?