The Possibility of Liberalism in the Orthodox Sunni Islamic Polity
... for liberalism based in natural law and rights employed by John Locke primarily in his Second Treatise on Government and revived this century in Robert Nozick’s Man, The State and Utopia as well as the utilitarian justification of the classical liberal state inherent in John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty ...
... for liberalism based in natural law and rights employed by John Locke primarily in his Second Treatise on Government and revived this century in Robert Nozick’s Man, The State and Utopia as well as the utilitarian justification of the classical liberal state inherent in John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty ...
A liberal policy approach to climate change
... increases rather than mitigation, given the enormous expense of the latter and the international impasse in negotiations we are witnessing and that is likely to continue d) the success of policies of adaptation relies on the degree to which key tenets of liberalism – such as the protection of privat ...
... increases rather than mitigation, given the enormous expense of the latter and the international impasse in negotiations we are witnessing and that is likely to continue d) the success of policies of adaptation relies on the degree to which key tenets of liberalism – such as the protection of privat ...
Hartz on American Liberal Tradition
... view of nature of Newtonian physics over into social thinking. Mr. Hartz mentions only Locke. He does not point out that American history began in the seventeenth century, synchronous with the climax of the scientific revolution. As Newton influenced his younger friend Locke, scientific thinking has ...
... view of nature of Newtonian physics over into social thinking. Mr. Hartz mentions only Locke. He does not point out that American history began in the seventeenth century, synchronous with the climax of the scientific revolution. As Newton influenced his younger friend Locke, scientific thinking has ...
CHAPTER 8: Public Opinion
... will of the people—to represent the constituents who elect them to office. Government officials are instructed delegates in the sense that they are expected to do what the people want. The strong role of public opinion in the delegate model of democracy makes it a populist form of representative dem ...
... will of the people—to represent the constituents who elect them to office. Government officials are instructed delegates in the sense that they are expected to do what the people want. The strong role of public opinion in the delegate model of democracy makes it a populist form of representative dem ...
David Hume`s Invisible Hand in The Wealth of Nations
... Convexity and continuity are intimately related as non-convexity of production will result from Of course, the indivisibility to which most attention is the provision of economists pay public There is one system of property rights and court system: these are key indivisibilities in a social order. F ...
... Convexity and continuity are intimately related as non-convexity of production will result from Of course, the indivisibility to which most attention is the provision of economists pay public There is one system of property rights and court system: these are key indivisibilities in a social order. F ...
Liberalism, Perfectionism, and Civic Virtue
... comprehensive conceptions. Rawls clearly distinguishes between neutrality of aim and neutrality of effect. Neutrality of effect is not given since political liberalism has effects on the likelihood that citizens tend to choose one comprehensive conception rather than another. Political liberalism is ...
... comprehensive conceptions. Rawls clearly distinguishes between neutrality of aim and neutrality of effect. Neutrality of effect is not given since political liberalism has effects on the likelihood that citizens tend to choose one comprehensive conception rather than another. Political liberalism is ...
How to use this Study Guide
... resources and came into conflict with one another. In quest of land, wealth, and security, some empires expanded dramatically. In doing so, they built powerful military machines and administrative institutions that were capable of organizing human activities over long distances, and they created new ...
... resources and came into conflict with one another. In quest of land, wealth, and security, some empires expanded dramatically. In doing so, they built powerful military machines and administrative institutions that were capable of organizing human activities over long distances, and they created new ...
Individual Liberty and Political Institutions
... normative principles.4 As I suppose, and as I shall explain in more detail below, it is the failure to carefully distinguish between the two principles and to realize that both are constitutive for a consistent liberal outlook at politics that has obfuscated the close relation between the ideals of ...
... normative principles.4 As I suppose, and as I shall explain in more detail below, it is the failure to carefully distinguish between the two principles and to realize that both are constitutive for a consistent liberal outlook at politics that has obfuscated the close relation between the ideals of ...
Austerity. Poverty. Food scarcity. Thomas Malthus, the great
... and that is very relevant now – concerns what would now be called social security.” Today at Jesus, Dr David Nally and Dr Duncan Kelly both hear echoes of Malthus in their own research. Kelly is writing a book on the Great War and the origins of modern politics, an attempt to take seriously John May ...
... and that is very relevant now – concerns what would now be called social security.” Today at Jesus, Dr David Nally and Dr Duncan Kelly both hear echoes of Malthus in their own research. Kelly is writing a book on the Great War and the origins of modern politics, an attempt to take seriously John May ...
End of the Left-Right Dichotomy: The French Case
... French sense of the word:, i.e., more free-market economics) and fewer social programs, while the Left prefers a few more social programs and a little less liberalism. On the whole, however, the political class does not seem to be tom apart all that much in the shifts between ―socio-liberalism‖ and ...
... French sense of the word:, i.e., more free-market economics) and fewer social programs, while the Left prefers a few more social programs and a little less liberalism. On the whole, however, the political class does not seem to be tom apart all that much in the shifts between ―socio-liberalism‖ and ...
Democracy unto the Earth, Liberty unto Mankind?
... tenets of liberal governance”,13 basic tenets which include civil, social and economic liberties. The use of elections can, it would appear, further undermine political and civil liberties in their own right through inequality; while elections allow for popular expression, they also manifest an aris ...
... tenets of liberal governance”,13 basic tenets which include civil, social and economic liberties. The use of elections can, it would appear, further undermine political and civil liberties in their own right through inequality; while elections allow for popular expression, they also manifest an aris ...
OBER, Athenian Legacies
... cracy, and that democracy is desirable only to the extent it protects individual rights. Given the ease with which rights can be legally restricted even within a society with a well-defined constitution (as contemporary events have shown), this trust in non-democratic governments to promote liberal ...
... cracy, and that democracy is desirable only to the extent it protects individual rights. Given the ease with which rights can be legally restricted even within a society with a well-defined constitution (as contemporary events have shown), this trust in non-democratic governments to promote liberal ...
neoliberal policies and human rights
... economy is to be sustainable, it must be legitimate among those who benefit least from it – the poor. The poor could be coerced into accepting their condition, but, since liberals value freedom, they must wish to minimise coercion in society. Since market economics is driven by self-interest, it has ...
... economy is to be sustainable, it must be legitimate among those who benefit least from it – the poor. The poor could be coerced into accepting their condition, but, since liberals value freedom, they must wish to minimise coercion in society. Since market economics is driven by self-interest, it has ...
HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT: AN INTRODUCTION Sample
... work of ten figures: Plato, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Hume, Madison & Hamilton, Mill, Marx, and Rawls. The course is structured chronologically, although, as we will see, that is not necessarily because there is a linear progression from one figure to the next. We will read only a sampli ...
... work of ten figures: Plato, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Hume, Madison & Hamilton, Mill, Marx, and Rawls. The course is structured chronologically, although, as we will see, that is not necessarily because there is a linear progression from one figure to the next. We will read only a sampli ...
Neoliberalism, Nationalism and the Decline of Political Traditions
... the impact of immigration resulting from liberalised labour markets. Formally, social democracy has been internationalist and hostile to all forms of xenophobia. However, its main institutional achievements have been profoundly if tacitly national, in the form of national welfare states. When social ...
... the impact of immigration resulting from liberalised labour markets. Formally, social democracy has been internationalist and hostile to all forms of xenophobia. However, its main institutional achievements have been profoundly if tacitly national, in the form of national welfare states. When social ...
Freeman Stakeholder Theory
... DesJardins describes two general sorts of criticism of stakeholder theory. Criticism 1: The substance of the theory is mistaken. Managers should not view all other stakeholders as equal to stockholders, and the free market view is right to say that managers should aim at maximized profits as their t ...
... DesJardins describes two general sorts of criticism of stakeholder theory. Criticism 1: The substance of the theory is mistaken. Managers should not view all other stakeholders as equal to stockholders, and the free market view is right to say that managers should aim at maximized profits as their t ...
: ..J. Society, State and Market
... development studies. At the outset, it should be stressed that the perspective for Marx's theories was society as a whole and not only the economic processes. Marx was interested in the totality of society and the ways in which this totality changed over long periods of time. His focus was on how an ...
... development studies. At the outset, it should be stressed that the perspective for Marx's theories was society as a whole and not only the economic processes. Marx was interested in the totality of society and the ways in which this totality changed over long periods of time. His focus was on how an ...
Doyle and Recchia, Liberalism in International
... to the ethics of military intervention and shows, in particular, how liberal theorists, while they all share a fundamental attachment to representative governance and human rights, can fundamentally differ in their support for coercive regime change. Basic Liberal Principles and Institutions Liberal ...
... to the ethics of military intervention and shows, in particular, how liberal theorists, while they all share a fundamental attachment to representative governance and human rights, can fundamentally differ in their support for coercive regime change. Basic Liberal Principles and Institutions Liberal ...
Self-interest, Sympathy and the Invisible Hand
... ‘nothing pleases us more than to observe in other men a fellow-feeling with all the emotions of our own breast.’7 Note that ‘nothing pleases us more’. The motivational primacy of other people’s sympathy is meant here literally. What are the advantages which we propose by that great purpose of human ...
... ‘nothing pleases us more than to observe in other men a fellow-feeling with all the emotions of our own breast.’7 Note that ‘nothing pleases us more’. The motivational primacy of other people’s sympathy is meant here literally. What are the advantages which we propose by that great purpose of human ...
Mercantilism and Physiocracy - Southeast Missouri State
... /hume.htm He believed that a nation’s welfare was measure by how many goods and services it had rather than its stock of precious metals. Also, he did not believe international trade to be a zero-sum game, rather he believed that all countries could gain. ...
... /hume.htm He believed that a nation’s welfare was measure by how many goods and services it had rather than its stock of precious metals. Also, he did not believe international trade to be a zero-sum game, rather he believed that all countries could gain. ...
Liberalism and nationalism
... institutions and associations. This is often considered a hopelessly naïve sociology: a fact appreciated by Locke who tries to draw the sting from just such a critique offered by Sir Robert Filmer’s Patriarcha in the first of his Two Treatises of Civil Government. Yet although Locke is an individua ...
... institutions and associations. This is often considered a hopelessly naïve sociology: a fact appreciated by Locke who tries to draw the sting from just such a critique offered by Sir Robert Filmer’s Patriarcha in the first of his Two Treatises of Civil Government. Yet although Locke is an individua ...
Durham Research Online
... exponents of positive liberty, Mill outlined the spiritual and moral personality on which this concept was based. Mill, however, did not pursue the political implications of the different aspects of his concept of liberty: he did not develop a notion of rights, like Spencer; did not ascribe signific ...
... exponents of positive liberty, Mill outlined the spiritual and moral personality on which this concept was based. Mill, however, did not pursue the political implications of the different aspects of his concept of liberty: he did not develop a notion of rights, like Spencer; did not ascribe signific ...
Liberalism and the Moral Significance of
... insulate them from change (along with one's position) by means of control over the powers of innovation. Thus, there is good reason to insist that freedom of thought, and its expression in speech, are crucial to any viable, human political order, though this requires renewed elaboration in a technol ...
... insulate them from change (along with one's position) by means of control over the powers of innovation. Thus, there is good reason to insist that freedom of thought, and its expression in speech, are crucial to any viable, human political order, though this requires renewed elaboration in a technol ...
Early Modern Classicism and Late Imperial China
... under the Mongols, who curtailed the examinations after 1280. Critical scholarship thrived outside the examination system, most notably in private academies and lineage schools of classical learning. Classical literacy, the ability to write elegant essays and poetry, was the crowning achievement for ...
... under the Mongols, who curtailed the examinations after 1280. Critical scholarship thrived outside the examination system, most notably in private academies and lineage schools of classical learning. Classical literacy, the ability to write elegant essays and poetry, was the crowning achievement for ...