HIST 2401 Lecture Notes - Classical Liberalism, Materialism, Jane Addams
29 Aug 2014
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Progressivism is a largely urban, middle class response to the social chaos unleashed by the rapid industrialization and urbanization led to re-evaluation of classical liberal principles that had argued for a small state to maximize private liberty. After the 1890s, america starts to look and act likes a global imperial power. Liberalism rests on our fundamental equality, and our personal liberty. Reform liberalism and christian socialism is the counter to laissez-faire social darwinism which argues that humans create their own environments (ward and sociology) through cooperation; It is a family of ideas that unified progressivism. Experts to business and government will remove the emotional divisions of politics; disinterestedness will tame fractiousness and selfishness; politics was selfish and narrow; university experts were above politics and could bring order fairly. Urban middle class were the ones who went to university. Jane addams (1860-1935) was the first american woman to win the noble peace prize in 1931.
