POLS 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Homo Economicus, Robert Filmer, Jeremy Bentham
27 Jan 2016
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Inequalities inherent in liberalism (rational individuals able to pursue their own interests in civil society: equality, consent: modern, rational, very important, contract: two equal, rational individuals, consenting to a contract. Marx and engels: class, sex, bourgeois rights in civil society are not working people rights, only for the elite, laborers are not free to do this (marx, bourgeois conjugal family, what are the issues here (engels) Pateman argues that the family is shunted off into the private realm: then forgotten once it was there, inequalities are not really pointed out until the 1980"s, due to the connection between the rational individual and. Kraus argues that the family may be at the heart of liberalism the family. Patriarchal concept of the family lies at the heart of liberalism: robert filmer (1588-1653) royalist and patriarchalist. Patriarchalism was a conservative ideology, did not like liberalism or hobbes work. Argued for the divine right of kings, god was the.
