POL 4189 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Shared Experience, Lynn Hunt
20 Jan 2015
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Three documents: english bill of rights 1689, issued in the context of the glorius revolution 1688 which overthrew james ii (dealt with religion) kind trying to restore catholicism; coming from the. Three ideas the power of ideas: uk 1689 social contract, integrity, the idea of a contract between an individual and the sovereign (precedes the. Self-evidence: we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal . His argument was that they developed a connection among themselves (shared experience). The key frustration was that their career path was blocked. Invention of the printing press sharing experiences across wider distances. They imagined themselves as part of a larger community. Nationalism is like identifying with a big family. Us vs. the other: emotion appeal that human being (the other) is like us (empathy) The dark side of natural rights: natural , innate, primordial .
