POLI1042 Lecture Notes - Stasi, French Revolution, Satanic Verses
1 Apr 2014
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By: john r. bowen: turning from what happened to colonized to what happened to colonizers because of colonizing, how westerners respond to increased immigrant population, french version of secularism, new version called laicite. Unwritten culture in france dealing with public affairs. Montesquieu = emblem of european core of secularism: secularism in its two forms: us vs. france, rousseau = philosopher, state of nature social contract, state of nature was the pure state of man (france) Promotes notion of state regarded as inheritance of french secularism: john locke (usa, usa emphasizes diversity and multi-culteralism. France emphasizes unity the creation of the french man and woman: usa = individual freedom from the state, france = individual freedom through the state. Religion = private matter, inner manifestation with god. Islam = problematic because has both private and public facets: can"t simply remain a belief. Any outward expression of religious symbols shouldn"t be allowed: have to be boundaries for people to express cultish ways.
