Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Brian Barry, Ascribed Status, November 3
24 Jul 2016
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Swift argues for the importance of assessing the value of different freedoms as part of his suspicion about a. free markets b. c. republicanism d. Nationalism and ideology: sometimes identified as an ideology, but jones says it"s not, nationalism: historical, territorial communities of belief, active, culturally distinctive. They"re agents: ethnic origins, but created by states. Pulled individual communities together to create nations, states. Communities of the imagination, basically: combines with different ideologies. All liberals aim to promote individual liberty. But liberals disagree about the nature of liberty. Brian barry (on next exam) on liberal states. Freedom of the press: press is separate from the state, liberal society protects tis ^ Abolition of servile social status (slaves: ex. If you don"t have property, you"re not worth as much as someone who does: liberalism- no distinction between each other- egalitarian plateau. No religious dogma can reasonably be held with certainty: reasonable people can disagree with you- must understand this as an religious follower.
