POLSCI 3Y03 Lecture Notes - Montesquieu, Socalled, Social Philosophy
13 Feb 2014
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Separates social philosophers: conservatives (right): machiavelli, hobbes, burke, hegel, stuart mill, von hayek, liberals (left): locke, rousseau, montesquieu, marx, engels, saint simon, comte, conservatives believed that man"s identity and destiny are directly tied to the state or church. These are superior to society and essential man"s moral and political survival: conservatives exhibit a pessimistic view of man"s intellectual and social nature. Whether a single human right has ever been invented by the ideological sectors called the. French revolution into an abstract figure that all men are born equal and remain equal in dignity. Concrete right became abstract right apply to everyone and no one in particular. Inalienable - people have by the very fact that they"re human beings. The modern european state (prototype) for all kinds of states emerged as a result of the first struggles between aristocracy and the crown. Modern nation state also emerged as a result of peasant"s rebellions due to excessive taxation.
