Blog 3 - What Social / Moral Principles do you find compelling and why? How do these principles fit with the personal principles you identified in Blog 2? Do they conflict at all? Do you think you can live according to both? How will you go about doing so? i.e. Prioritize them? Adopt specific ones for specific contexts?
Over the course of the last few weeks we have covered several topics and social issues. Locke and Marx's views on society were very different but both represent different ideas of today's society. Some people agree more with Locke and have a libetarian outlook on life while others find themselves siding with Marx and his views towards equality. It's interesting because both are a part of today's society and yet both ideas go against each other. In order to have personal freedom you cannot be equal and being equal takes away from personal freedoms.
For my Blog 2 I mentioned that my personal principles consisted of treating others the way you would like to be treated. Therefore I find myself relating more with Marx and his belief in equality being the fundamental principle. Marx is an advocate for Communism where everyone is treated equally which follows the golden rule. However, I don't disagree completely with the libertarian views because I do believe in having some personal freedoms. Societies could live by following both principles such as America does. They clearly promote personal freedom, but they also try to instill equality by offering things such as welfare and the no child left behind act. This is an example of how people could live according to both, but in the end one will always outweigh the other.
I commented on Evon's blog.
http://evonsommerville.blogspot.com/
I agree with you about incorporating both Marx’s views and Libertarian views together. I myself wasn’t able to decide which one to stand for or against, so like you said a combination of both seems the most plausible. I also agree with your statement about equality being the fundamental principle of Marx’s views, it would be wonderful if that could actually work in a real society. I do think in the end one will outweigh the other, like you said, but hopefully not by too much.
ReplyDeleteI completely an fully agree when u mentioned treat other the way u would like to be treated. I too find myself related my social principles with Marx and his belief in equality.
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