Tournament: TFA State | Round: 1 | Opponent: Flower Mound KW | Judge: Christopher Mifflin
Part 1: Framework:
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There can be no objection to deny another’s freedom since they possess the same right and that would deny my worth. We must have an omnilateral will since it’s a contradiction by willing a world where the will is denied or clashing without resolution. Kant
Immanuel Kant ~founder of analytic philosophy~ "Critique of Pure Reason" 1781 – Omnilateral Will = Collective body of all citizens, derived from the particular wills of all the individuals
When I declare
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a civil society.
This leads to a rational community consisting of reasoners. This is the ethical community.
Gobsch (The Idea of an Ethical Community: Kant and Hegel on the Necessity of Human Evil and the Love in which to Overcome It. Wolfram Gobsch)
The idea of
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on its content.
Ethics must acknowledge material conditions.
Gobsch 2 (The Idea of an Ethical Community: Kant and Hegel on the Necessity of Human Evil and the Love in which to Overcome It. Wolfram Gobsch.)
We know holiness
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even what love is.
Thus, the standard is upholding the ethical community.
(analytic)
Part 2: Contention:
I advocate for guaranteeing the right to housing in the US as a general maxim.
- An ethical community requires that agents are harmonious with one another, because reasoning agents will always come to the same rational conclusion that security of rights protects the ability of actors to will their own ends. In the context of the resolution, rational actors would come to the decision that rights that protect the well-being of an individual should be applied since it ensures the ability for a system of external freedom. Because houses provide protection, the right to housing would be applied.
Fichte J.G. Fichte, "Foundations of Natural Right: According to the Principles of the Wissenschaftslehre". Edited by Frederick Neuhouser, Cornell University. Translated by Michael Baur, Fordham University. Cambridge University Press, 2000.
II) Thus, the
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right, on legislation.(d)
2. Willing my freedom entails that others respect it so we establish reciprocal constraints since no individual can will for them all the state is necessary to maintain this system – so the state is to maintain equal outer freedom in its territory, which necessitates that someone having access to rights independent and inaccessible of others yields a contradiction since they posit themselves to have value over the ethical community that’s necessary for freedom in the first place. That affirms:
3. Kantian thought is the fundamental ideology used to create standards of well-being like the right of housing. Velasquez et al 14.
(Manuel Velasquez, Claire Andre, Thomas Shanks, S.J., and Michael J. Meyer, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, University of Santa Clara, https://www.scu.edu/ethics/ethics-resources/ethical-decision-making/rights/)**
Kant's principle is
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need of help.
4. (analytic)