DVM2350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Perduellio, Reserved And Excepted Matters, Standing Army

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: International Development and Globalization
• Course: DVM2350
• Professor: Mahmoud Masaeli

Document Summary

Scientific and intellectual developments started from 17th century tenets of enlightenment: rational approach to social, political, and religious perspectives, secular worldview. People must be able to understand interpret religion in their own ways: belief in human perfectibility and rational progress (rationalization/modernization of development) Most important thinker of ethical liberalism founding father of today"s discourse of human rights. Immanuel kant: the idea of autonomy: a process for freedom. Bridging rational capacity with autonomy = emancipation. Enlightenment is a man"s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one"s understanding without guidance from another. Immaturity is self-imposed when is cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance form another: freedom in the public sphere. Enlightenment is the spirit of political/ethical liberalism. Autonomy = a determined will to decide independently of others (a revolution within)