GS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: United Nations Development Programme, Segue, Negative Liberty
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Gs201 lesson 2: liberalism, the free individual (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Self-interest ensures that everyone is well taken care of. That self-interest is made into the kind that protects all selves. Religious conflict between catholics and protestants (30 years war in europe: 1618-1648) Ontoleration: rule of the importance of tolerating difference. English civil war (1642-1651: between king charles the first and parliament, parliamentary democracy was still in infancy, king was abusing his authority, ended with the king"s execution in 1649 and leader of. Parliament formed a republic (became almost a dictator: that broke down, then restoration of monarchy, a lot of upheaval in english society and lack of respect for authority. Locke writes about how to have a society with authority: government > monarch. British colonial rule: headed towards peak of british empire, americas and colonies in americas = big political reflection in his day, when usa formed political system, locke"s ideas were taken up in many ways.
