PO101 Lecture 6: PO101 Class Notes Lecture #6
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Concept update from sept. 22nd: political philosophy, values, socratic method, philosopher-kings, divine right of kings, political realism, state of nature, self-determination, ideologies, classical liberalism, reform liberalism, general will, social contract, tyranny of the masses. Related to negative and positive freedoms: private property critical to system, is an extension of self if you don"t know hold property, you are less. The only way tot do that is to make less expensive wages. As they do that, people make less money and there is no money left to buy products and companies end up making less money: permeates out personal lives, values, relationships. Conservatism: edmund bruke, rapid change is disrupting, value existing order, society is essential for human development, not focused on individuals. Focused on an hierarchical organic view of individual roles: representative democracy is essentially a conservative idea, not about markets, private property etc.
