Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Nonresistance, Equal Opportunity, Immanuel Kant
3 Nov 2016
School
Department
Course
Document Summary
All liberals aim to promote individual liberty. But liberals disagree about the nature of liberty. No religious dogma can reasonably be held with certainty. Every doctrine should be open to critical scrutiny. Fundamental equality of all human beings: inequality is an artifact. Rejecting ascribes status in favour of achieved status and equal opportunity. Unintentionally paves the way for religious pluralism and, eventually, Luther against church corruption and priestly authority toleration. Luther and john calvin: non-resistance to political authority. Later calvinists: right to overthrow rulers who do not tolerate free exercise of their religion. Constitutional monarchy wherein monarch is limited by constitutional framework. Treat human beings never merely as means but always at the same time as ends in themselves. The three-part concept of freedom: a is free from b to do or become c. A = an agent of some sort.
