POL113H5 Chapter 4: Week 4 tut pol113
9 Mar 2017
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Stuck-in-the-mud vs. flip- floppers (tutorial) week 4 september 30, 2013. Emphasized individual liberty (freedom of religion, eg. john locke. With marxism, social class. : principle of individual, state is an instrument that is created artificially by people for sake of their own quantifiable, immediately understandable benefit, john stuart mills, on liberty. Thus, conservatism tends to distrust or reject the idea that these customs can be changed radically without doing unforeseeable harm to society. Distrust ability of individuals or a single generation to possess the wisdom to reject out of hands the accumulative wisdom of succeeding generations. If its doesn"t reject change, it prefers that change be incremental and guided by a respect for the past and existing, longstanding institutions. French law: application of laws that are made by parliament, completely dependant upon what law is simply what gov"t makes law, so can be changed easily. Mill: idea of progress, how to make things better over time.
