GLOBL 1 Lecture 8: Lecture 8
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Lecture 8 - 02. 02. 17 - liberalism and the global democratic revolutions. No innate ideas but truths of revelations. Mind is tabula rasa or blank on which experience = content. What"s innate are natural rights to life = life, liberty, and property f(x) of gov. is to protect them. State = all individuals who belong to it. Disperse gov. powers so not too powerful. Implications of classic liberalism religion, and bear arms. = 1st amendment right to vote and protect freedoms of speech, press, assembly, Economics = support laissez-faire and no gov. interference in 4300 life/free trade, self-regulating markets towards equilibrium of supply and demand constraint on this leads to political corruption, state bureaucracies, and social stagnation. Ethics = emphasize individual dignity and defend minority rights. Modernization = national unification, more scientific outlook, popular participation in politics, self-sustaining economics, more social mobility, literacy and public edu. Secularism = more scientific outlook, freedom of and from religion viewed as.
