Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Brian Barry, Ascribed Status, Carbon Price
17 Nov 2016
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Economic: state regulation of the economy, trade, redistributive taxation, labour relations, healthcare, childcare. Social: religion and politics, abortion, immigration and multiculturalism, law and order, drugs, assisted death. Government institutions: quebec, first nations, monarchy, senate, french and english on the supreme. Environmental: greenhouse gas emissions, carbon pricing, pipelines. All liberals aim to promote individual liberty. But liberals disagree about the nature of liberty. Brian barry (1936 2009) on liberal states. No religious dogma can reasonably be held with certainty. Every doctrine should be open to critical scrutiny. Religious conformity: roman catholicism, state and church are combine, orthodoxy. Feudalism: hierarchical social scale, unequal life chances, serfs: peasants not free to leave the land, legally attached. No equality of opportunity, no freedom of movement. Ascribed status: status is fixed at birth. Political absolutism: absolutist monarchies preserved feudal system. Rebellion: magna carta: kings assets authority over every aspect of lives of subjects. Rejecting ascribed status in favour of achieved status and equal opportunity.
