POLS 3320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Liberal Democracy, Triangular Trade, Great Power
20 Mar 2017
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Forces of destruction: a causeway for benevolence, a vehicle for inner state power. Forces of production: humanitarianism as part of the superstructure that facilitates the production and expansion of capitalism. Forces of compassion: a principal of impartiality notion that all individuals are deserving of compassion and respect; be. Ethical awakenings that raise our awareness about the suffering of others, responsibility to act. respective of their race, ethnicity, identity, culture. The role of atonement when humans realize we messed up really badly. The connection between what you"ve done, and the suffering of others. Example: germany feels as if they should be taking in a lot of syrian refugees to offset the idea of the. The role of technology transportation, media, emergency medicine, delivery systems, logistics. In the early 1900s, it would take weeks to respond to a famine, now it"s become possible to set up relatively quickly, but also to provide cash transfers electronically to refugee families.
