Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - John Stuart Mill, Jennifer Aniston, Classical Liberalism
16 Nov 2012
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Classical liberalism: 1700s-1800s, locke & smith. Reform liberalism: 1800s-1900s, mill & green. Contemporary liberalism: 1930s, keynes (1930s) & rawls (1970s) Personal freedom freedom from coercion they can"t make us do things we don"t want to. Limited government state serves & performs limited functions. Equality of right everyone must abide by laws, which must be applied equally and impartially to everyone (ie. doesn"t matter who you are; punishment based on what you did) Consent of the governed government requires the consent of the people and is responsible to them. John locke (1632-1704) england most eminent political theorist in the world; french revolution. Adam smith (1723-90) scotland well known economist, most profound. Radical for his time (now considered conservative) believed that : rejecting absolutist monarchy, replacing it with a recognition of the rights of the individual, people"s consent to who rules over them. Most influential british political theoriest globally influential.
