CRMN 3850U Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: George Orwell, Classical Liberalism, Political Liberalism
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Culture where we"ll be constantly watched/ surveillance. Invest our time and energy in shiny/ empty status symbols. Achieving these things to make ourselves feel alive: debates over how we should live, how we should act. New set of principles took over from theology/ god to science and rationality. Human beings are rational: moral philosophy, utilitarianism: as an emergent and dominant philosophy. In order to answer the question, we have to go backwards. People given the most liberty they can possibly have. What"s important is how someone wants to live. Should be able to do whatever they want. Everyone can have liberty and freedom up to a point. If you cross that line you will be punished. If we can think of human beings as rational pleasure-seeking people. Hedonistic = seek pleasure and avoid pain. Instantiate = make something (a theory) become real: political liberalism. Has to do with liberal beliefs and ideology. Liberalism: the most successful model: belief in:
