POLSCI 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: French Revolution, Radical Feminism, Proletariat
31 Jan 2020
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Why is tradition valuable: why should we use past as guideline for present, edmund burke, writing in uk in late 1700"s, writing during french revolution (society that"s futile in its makeup, France ruled by monarch, privileges for rulers, influenced by enlightenment, changing the way people think, abstract principles, restraints on monarch, increasingly deep reaching changes that organizes society based upon robust and abstract principles) If you want to understand society, don"t start with abstract ideas, not reality, people live in reality, living with each other. Society a social fabric (pulling on a thread, all the fabric falls apart and unwinds: you cant simply disassemble and reassemble things the way you want. Sudden possession of power leads to bad decisions. If you"re going to make changes, don"t do it in a radical way, should be slow: modification not replacement. What should government look like: there"s no one answer: it depends on the history and traditions of the society in question.
