ESPM 50AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Renaissance Humanism, John Locke, Contract Theory

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Environmental Science, Policy, And Management
• Course: ESPM 50AC
• Professor: Spreyer Kurt

Document Summary

Lecture 8 revolutionary values: property, liberty and being american - outline. Today: locke: a closer look at private property & 1st rights, american interpretations of the lockean social contract, the contradictory nature of american democracy, models of incorporation. John locke: second treatise on government (1689) liberalism does through notion of a liberal-social contract. Sought to free individual to act in economy, politics, social institutions, rather than allow for these things to act on the individuals themselves. Base claim on idea of sovereignty lying with the people. Later on, more disagreements between liberal protestantism and more conservative catholicism. Based on idea that god"s plan is to promote harmony between various social interests. Political thinkers sought to address great point of anxiety among people. Liberty-central to interests of those acting to have freedom in marketplace. How to restrain holders of economic and political power from acting tyrannically on citizens? overcome by citizens submitting to a free social contract willingly.