POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Athenian Democracy, Classical Antiquity, Private Good
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context: french revolution and its aftermath (took away power from the nobility, made everyone politically equal, concept today comes out of french revolution) (i. e. people who were not so enthusiastic about the revolution were beheaded by those who were overly enthusiastic; very few wanted to go back to the old monarchy) never was a form of democracy people gravitated towards the classical antiquity of greece athenian democracy; constant rejects this model citing it to be not appropriate to the circumstances under which we are living. model had not been in action for nearly 2000 years. reasons he says its not applicable: differences in conception of freedom; their conception was particular. Greek conception of liberty was that they themselves as a community would make decisions for themselves) www. notesolution. com. Going to war - one way of thinking about liberty is thinking that we are equal and elect representatives that declare whether or not we want war.