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Deleuze I 35
Law/Hume: law is not a natural principle. This is an artificial rule. Morality is integrated by a political agreement.
>Principles/Hume, >Morals/Hume.
HumeVsHobbes: VsSocial Contract: the social contract draws a false picture of society, only a negative one. Positive: lust is the driving force of all action. It is in my best interest to leave someone to his or her property, provided he/she does the same for me. Ownership is the essential political phenomenon.
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Rawls I 184
Def Law/observation/order/justice/Hume/Rawls: something, e.g. a social system, is fair, if an ideal impartial observer from outside would judge this from a general point of view, if he had all relevant information about the circumstances.

(See Roderick Firth, "Ethical Absolutism and the Ideal Observer", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 12, 1952; F. C. Sharp, Good and Ill Wll, Chicago, 1950, pp. 156-162; D. Hume, Treatise of Human Nature, ed. L. A. Selby-Bigge, Oxford, 1888, esp. Bk III, pt. III, sec I, esp. Pp574-584.
More general discussion: C. D. Broad,"Some Reflections on Moral-Sense Theories in Ethics". Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, vol. 45 (1944-45); W. K. Kneale, "Objectivity in Morals", Philosophy, vol. 25 (1950).)

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