POL320Y1 Lecture Notes - Classical Liberalism, Social Conservatism, Family Values
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Nothing is leftour institutions can never be embodied to create in us loveincapable of filling their place. Idea that politics cannot be based on reason alone. On the scheme of this barbarous philosophy (enlightenment) which is the offspring of cold understandinglaws are to be supported only by their own terrors. (pg 66) On this scheme of things a king is but a man, a queen is but a woman, and a woman is but an animal, and one not of the highest order. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. (pg 67) There is an aesthetic dimension to politics. Aesthetics is the study of beauty --> looking into the way in which objects in the world make us feel. Beauty --> female --> makes us feel good. Sublime --> male --> inspires awe and fear.
