GS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: English Civil War, French Revolution, Friedrich Engels
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Liberalism inherent to the way we think about the world. Each of us are agents in our own lives, individual as unit of society comes from liberalism. Joh(cid:374) ra(cid:449)ls" theory of justice thought experiment universal laws, being born anywhere in any situation. Religious conflict between catholics and protestants, mixed up with power struggle between parliament and the monarch: england and across europe, government separate from the king. English civil war (1642-1651) ki(cid:374)g cha(cid:396)les i (cid:271)eheaded, (cid:271)(cid:396)ief go(cid:448)"t led (cid:271)(cid:455) oli(cid:448)e(cid:396) Cromwell (dictatorship short-lived), the glorious revolution (1688-1689) succession to the throne, james ii to become king but was catholic (make england catholic from. Lo(cid:272)ke"s se(cid:396)(cid:448)i(cid:272)e to the ea(cid:396)l of haftes(cid:271)u(cid:396)(cid:455) as (cid:373)edi(cid:272)al do(cid:272)to(cid:396), a(cid:374)d his (cid:396)elatio(cid:374)ship to political life: political theories never published under his name until after death. His starting points: god made the world, perfect freedom. His aim: refute the divine right of kings (sustained the monarchy) and derive basic laws of political society by rational argument.
