POLS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Utopian Socialism, Economic Liberalism, Human Nature
6 Apr 2017
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Society must mirror the universal order of things: universal order is due to a supreme being who builds this universal order, has transcendental reason. Mysterious reason cannot be fully understood by humans natural hierarchy = societal hierarchy priority = natural institutions of society: ex. Utopian socialist book what is socialism? . Socialism designates possessive individualism of liberal thought : possessive individualism = liberalism, c. b mcpherson, uoft. Socialism possesses possessive individualism: refuses capital value of selfish actions, opposes private property exclusive motor of the economy. Socialism is born of the triumph of liberalism. Many of its main principles mirror liberalist ideas. Socialist do not seek to deny the principle of liberalism but they believe in the necessity to surpass liberal ideas (go beyond: socialists attempt to push liberal ideas to the max extent. Liberals = we are all born free and equal: we all have equal access to reason. Socialists attempt to maximise the universal content of liberalism.
