HIST 121 Study Guide - Final Guide: John Maynard Keynes, John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
16 Aug 2016
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Instrumental power: acquired fortune: man is in constant conflict with man. Jean-jacques rousseau: in emile, rousseau proposes the principle of conscience---innate principle of justice and virtue. Privileges do not make on free, but rather the rights belong to everyone : nation = a body of associates living under a common law and represented by the same legislature . Edmund burke: the french revolution, according to him, is based on abstract human rights, the task of designing a government is very complicated. The science of constructing a commonwealth or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught a priori. Immanuel kant: kant"s basic question: freedom vs. necessity. Just like someone never takes off a pair of dark sunglasses, which makes he can never know what the world looks like behind the black color. The world of the intellect is like that world behind that pair of sunglasses.
