POLS 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Liberal Democracy, Homo Economicus, Body Politic

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1000
• Professor: Martin Breaugh

Document Summary

Question #1: explain why the individual property owner is placed in the center of liberal. Two-part question: the individual and the property owner. A liberal society is built in a way where there is minimal state intervention and the individual has the right to life, liberty, and happiness (american declaration of independence: the individual is the main unit of analysis. Society must come second to the individual: there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women (margret. Thatcher: society is nothing but what rational individuals do within the society. Individuals are rational; therefore, nobody understands individual happiness better than the individual: reason manifests itself through the individual. Happiness comes from the interaction with the physical nature: property, as in real estate and economic goods, allow humans to be happy and remain happy, property withstands the test of time.