MIC 205 : Test 1 Notes
15 Mar 2019
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"the right to give the law to all of the people without their consent. " Some may give consent, but that is not the point. This is an "absolute" right within any given society, whether exercised by a king, a legislative body, or some other person or source such as a court system. The process of becoming secular in point of view, that is, concerned only with things of this world and explanations arising from it rather than also or only with things of the "next world" i. e. , religion in one sense. From the latin "saecularis" (coming once in an age) in contrast to latin. "the rule of modern institutions of state, civil society, public sphere, human rights, equality before the law, the individual, distinctions between public and private, the idea of the subject. [person hood], democracy, popular sovereignty, social justice, scientific rationality, and so on. " Dipesh chakrabaerty, provincializing europe: postcolonial thought and historical difference (princeton, 2000), 4.
