SOSC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: English Civil War, Sophist, Joseph Boyden

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1000
• Professor: Terry Conlin

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Lecture four- may 15th, 2014- ideology and history: sophists- always trying to make the weakest straight stronger. 1688- the revolution in england of the creation of the constitutional monarchy. The individual should not be coursed and should be free to do as he or she pleases. You should be free from corrosion: government should be limited to the prevision of a few limited sanctions. It"s okay for government to have a navy and military. It is responsible for government to uphold law in society. It is okay for government to enforce contracts between individuals. Government is like the referee, it protects people from people: equality of right: citizens are subject to and abide by the same set of rules. The same set of rules apply to the same citizens. Inequalities of wealth and status have existed and have always existed. Classical liberals are committed to a notion of procedural fairness for only citizens.