PHIL 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Order
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Power is chance of man or number of men to realize communal action, You may b thinking these are rough divisions of topic of power. Is all sort of force violence, is all violence force is it objectionable is it ethically required . So what is liberalism: idea of personal freedom, limited governmental power, focus on individual person, civil liberty and rights, social rights political rights a kind of view that arises in particular to political sphere, Idea that if people aren"t harming others, then they should have a right to pursue their individual view of what is right for them. According to shklar, liberalism is a political doctrine. Securing the political conditions that are necessary for the exercise of personal freedom! Free from fear, fear from being in fear . She thinks, and it"s a very interesting move, the main thing is freedom.