GVPT 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Tyrant, Dialectic, Human Nature
9 May 2016
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Js mill was a left-centrist; he had very little sympathy for revolutionary change. He wanted change, but not by the means of revolution. The cultures of non-western peoples are to be appreciated for their sophistication. All of us are inheritors of the western european customs and traditions. Freedom of thought, expression, the individual, tyranny of the majority, etc. Js mill wanted to disassociate individuality from possessive individualism (john locke) Locke - to be an individual was to be a possessor of things; gave wealth an unproportional power to shape social values and norms. Js mill - there is more to the individual than his or her property. Society is a dominating presence on our mind and behavior. We have to be highly critical and suspicious of the ways in which society attempts to dominate the way we think and perceive things. Freedom of thought and discussion are key to being an individual.
