POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Negative Liberty, Positive Liberty, Classical Liberalism
10 Jul 2016
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Autonomous, in our own personal world and we experience things in our own personal way, we are responsible for ourselves. Rational, capable of making rational decisions and making them in the political sphere. Competitive, individuals are in a competition with each other because resources are scarce, see other people as your competitors but the competition is good for us and encourages us to make the best decisions. Self- interested, we take care of ourselves and who we are, we will do the thing that it right for us, will primarily be taking care of yourself, this is good for everyone economically. Acquisitive we own ourselves and we acquire things, goods that we believe are good for us, wanting to acquire what we need or desire. Reason will lead the individual to contract with each other to form a state to protect common interests. Tolerant of human differences in private sphere such as religious differences.
