PAPM 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Totalitarianism, Mass Society, Negative Liberty

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

Document Summary

Taylor: exercise concept, look at motivation; claim about liberty in positive sense, must look at the motivation. Politics, had been absent from other texts" discussions. Freedom is tied up closely to natalaty (birth) Humans special because every time born new possibility brought into world. Capacity to bring new things into world, no matter how bad things get. No matter how bad it gets, possibility that new humans will bring things into world. History of discussion has missed discussion of politics. People acting in public space and bringing new things into world. Rather than creating new terminology, used familiar words (labour, work, action, social) but uses in particular way (not always consistent) Not talking about choice (vs. berlin and value pluralism and incommensurable, to be human you"re forced to make tragic moral choices, one idea hold above another; stark moral choices)