The connection between the notion of social cooperation and the conception of the person which I shall introduce can be explained as follows. The notion of social cooperation is not simply that of coordinated social activity efficiently organized and guided by publicly recognized rules to achieve some overall end. Social cooperation is always for mutual benefit and this implies that it involves two elements: the first is a shared notion of fair terms of cooperation, which each participant may reasonably be expected to accept, provided that everyone else likewise accepts them. Fair terms of cooperation articulate an idea of reciprocity and mutuality: all who cooperate must benefit, or share in common burdens, in some appropriate fashion judged by a suitable bench- mark of comparison. This element in social cooperation I call the Reasonable. The other element corresponds to the Rational: it refers to each participant’s rational advantage; what, as individuals, the participants are trying to advance. Whereas the notion of fair terms of cooperation is shared, participants’ conceptions of their own rational advantage in general differ. The unity of social cooperation rests on persons agreeing to its notion
of fair terms. -J. Rawls – The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, 1982, The Basic Liberties and Their Priority (pp.14)

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” Unity No.3 ”

01. Victor Lams – (Life is) Salty (via Undomondo)
Robot Love (The Orchard, 2001)
02. Miles Davis featuring Nas – Freedom Jazz Dance (Evolution Of The Groove)
Evolution Of The Groove: The Remix EP (2007)
03. DJ Zebra – Break through love (homepage)
Bootleegs (DJ Zebra, 2002-2005)
04. The Beatles – While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Acoustic)
(The White Album, 1968?)
05. Jimi Hendrix – Power to Love
Band of Gypsys (1970)
06. James Brown – Sayin And Doin’ It
Hell (1974)

note: The last of my hip-hop series. An obvious list and fairly mainstream, but with mash up and funk twist. Isn’t that what hip-hop is about?

see also: No.1, No.2

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