MMW 15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Liberal Democracy, Contract Theory, Individual And Group Rights

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 15
• Professor: Pamela Radcliff

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Lecture 2: the opening act of world war i. A poi(cid:374)t of departure: the world order i(cid:374) 1914: fro(cid:373) the (cid:862)top(cid:863: guidi(cid:374)g pri(cid:374)(cid:272)iples: (cid:862)the e(cid:374)lighte(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t proje(cid:272)t(cid:863, defi(cid:374)i(cid:374)g the (cid:862)e(cid:374)lighte(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t proje(cid:272)t(cid:863) It was believed that these ideas universally applied to everyone. A universal set of principles that would perfect human society in the long run. The defining principle of the enlightenment project was liberalism, a set of principles that provided a framework for political, economic, and social organization. It claimed to have universal validity, in that it applied to all peoples and regions, regardless of specific differences between them. Liberalism: putting the individual at the center: politics, contract theory of government, consent of the governed. I(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual rights / (cid:862)self-deter(cid:373)i(cid:374)atio(cid:374)(cid:863: liberalism is not equivalent to democracy, you can have a liberal democracy but liberal philosophers in the. A world of contradictions: selective application of the enlightenment project.