POL320Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Universal Access To Education, Universal History, Human Nature
22 Mar 2017
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We are the authors of our own future. We ve always had the power to create a better future but we were not necessarily conscious of this power. 4th proposition: by antagonism we are able to develop. The social unsociability of people: tendency to come together but a resistance to being in a community. Advancement is made through social antagonism, propose a progression through time. Kant refuses to believe in a golden age. 5th proposition: the greatest problem is obtaining a universal civic society. A political society where we are allowed the fullest amount of freedom under law. In a perfect constitution individual freedoms are protected by law. Self mastery is controlling your impulses in absence of punishment. A master who can enforce a universally valid law. States need to solve the problem of unrestricted freedom. International stage is characterized by broad unsociable sociability.
