PAPM 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: James Mill, Freedom Fries, French Fries

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Public Affairs and Policy Management
• Course: PAPM 1000
• Professor: Marc Hanvelt

Document Summary

Promise of democracy: anyone can stand up and lead we know that while it might be true in principle it"s not true in practice. The people who are in parliament (generally) are old white men, who for a living generally do not make minimum wage. Notion of freedom: no politician would be elected with a platform against freedom. No one thinks freedom isn"t of great importance. Consider the cold war the free world" versus the. Mill"s on liberty is considered a starting point for a discussion of freedom in liberal, democratic society. Freedoms" sometimes translates to rights, but they are not synonymous. Mill: was born to james mill (was famous for working with jeremy bentham, who formulated a moral theory called utilitarianism. ) James mill believed in a theory of education that included a rigorous homeschooling. By 3 he was reading ancient greek, by 5 latin; by 10-11 he was editing his dad"s and bentham"s works.