POLI 365 Lecture Notes - False Consciousness, Monism, Positive Liberty
5 Apr 2013
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Feb 25 isaiah berlin critique of authoritarianism as associated with marxist-leninism defends liberalism. Mill: liberalism provides conditions for human flourishing. We choose for ourselves and are not chosen for positive liberty as self-abnegation achieve autonomy by learning to control ourselves such control takes the form of restraint or denial. We appraise our external circumstance, and act accordingly. Taylor: positive liberty takes precedence over negative liberty the only reason why we value negative liberty is because it allows is to have positive liberty. 146-147: monism assumes that all problems have a single solution all solutions must fit into a single whole. Defence of liberalism attempt to refute monism links liberalism with pluralism. When we show monism leads to authoritarian political practices, the consequences are to be detrimental to the individual therefore, monism is bad there is no empirical evidence to support monism, that the harmony of ends is true.
