Political Science 1020E Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Positive Force, Positive Liberty, Invisible Hand
31 Mar 2015
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Wants to modify the market system without abolishing it. Personal freedom: for classic liberals freedom is simply the absence of coercion, reform liberals add another dimension, in terms of our capacity to achieve our goals in life. Liberal: the term comes from the latin liber, meaning free , the concept of freedom lies at the core of the liberal ideology, started in the napoleonic wars, the concept was order than its practice. Principles of liberalism: personal freedom, equality of right, consent of the governed. Equality of right: equality of right implies that all must abide by the same laws, which the state enforces with impartiality. John locke: the second treatise of government (1690, the purpose of government is fundamentally to protect them in their life, health, liberty, or possessions , religion as a private matter, wherever law ends, tierney ends.
