WST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: John Stuart Mill, The Big Questions, Political Philosophy
13 Mar 2017
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Carole pateman"s feminist critique of the public/private dichotomoy : she argues that both of the editors of the textbook about liberalism is wrong. Defining capital l liberalism: liberalism is a political philosophy or worldview that supports or advocates for individual rights, civil liberties, and movements towards individual freedom, social equality, and democracy. Intellectual, political, & economic context: liberalism came out of the enlightenment (17th and 18th. Century); intellectual movement that is associated with ideals of reason, progress, liberty, tolerance, constitutional government; critical of church and state: american (1775-1783) and french revolution (1789-1799) Democratic revolutions inspired by intellectual currents of day: industrial revolution, the rise of capitalism, and the concept of modern nation state (late 17th century onwards ) Examples of liberal thinkers: john locke father of liberalism & john. At the end of the reading: she argues: feminist alternative to. Nation: it is an imagined political community- and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign.
