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Deeper Dive - DSU's podcastAuthor: Walker Uhl & Nick Dungey
The DSU podcast "Deeper Dive" is a weekly dialog between the moderator Walker Uhl and Professor Nick Dungey. Each week we will discuss a current event of global significance. Moving beyond the traditional left right ideological debate, we identify the deeper core philosophical ideas that give rise to the events themselves and the partisan arguments that surround them. Language: en Genres: News, Philosophy, Politics, Society & Culture Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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My Freedom, My Rights, and the End of the Social Contract
Thursday, 14 October, 2021
In the last two years we have seen an explosion in assertion of "absolute freedom" and "absolute rights" in the social and political crisis surrounding vaccines and the government's authority to mandate vaccines. Throughout the country, people have asserted an irreducible freedom and an unconditional right to "decide" whether to accept the vaccination. This is understanding and assertion of freedom and rights are yet another example of an extraordinary confusion about the core philosophical and political ideas that animate the American Political experiment. In this episode we explore historical and philosophical story surrounding the Modern, and the Modern Liberal notion of Freedom and Natural Rights and, we identify the difference between original and political Freedom, and between Natural Rights and Civil Rights.
