POLB92H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Proletariat, Young Europe, Italian Unification
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Midterm: will give us a voluntarist argument and we are asked to refute it with a structuralist argument. Know the two cases well enough so that you"ll know which factors that will account for both. Specific action or decision or event that causes the outcome (e. g. bad harvest) By saying they are human beings, does not mean it"s a good argument. To what extent is it free choice (imagine it going one way or another etc. ) Highly contingent -- easily go the other way (e. g. weather etc. ) And show that this contingency is caused the outcome. Not va when decision overwhelmingly in the interests of the actor. E. g. whether louis xvi taxes or not. Because the king needs money, he really had no choice but to tax the citizens. E. g. marrying marie antoinette would be a better argument. Not va when it"s hard to imagine someone making another choice.
