POLS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Classical Liberalism, Liberal Democracy, Social Liberalism
23 Nov 2017
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Left and right: those who favoured old order sat to right of chairman, those who opposed absolute authority sat to left, left: communism-> socialism-> reform liberalism-> classical liberalism-> Conservatism-> fascism: right: left, pursuit of greater social and economic equality, oppose state support for religious institutions and favor laws based on universal human rights rather than traditional morality, right, see inequality as natural feature of human society. Liberalism (classic, reform, neo: high level of individual freedom based on belief in inherent dignity of each person. 4: the state has a role to play in correcting some inequality and producing greater fairness, still within the framework of liberalism, shares common orientation with classical. Conservatism: conservatism: values of order, stability, respect for authority and tradition. Humans are inherently imperfect, with limited capacity to reason. At the time of french revolution in 1789: assertion of rights of man, notion that all individuals are equal in opposition to church, french (aristocracy)
