Combining Texts
Ideas for
'Letters to Edward Stillingfleet', 'The Social Contract (tr Cress)' and 'How to be a Liberal'
expand these ideas
|
start again
|
choose
another area for these texts
display all the ideas for this combination of texts
12 ideas
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 5. Democracy / a. Nature of democracy
|
19825
|
If the sovereign entrusts government to at least half the citizens, that is 'democracy' [Rousseau]
|
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 5. Democracy / b. Consultation
|
19832
|
Democratic elections are dangerous intervals in government [Rousseau]
|
|
7243
|
Silence of the people implies their consent [Rousseau]
|
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 5. Democracy / d. Representative democracy
|
7251
|
The English are actually slaves in between elections [Rousseau]
|
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 5. Democracy / e. Democratic minorities
|
7238
|
Minorities only accept majority-voting because of a prior unanimous agreement [Rousseau]
|
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 5. Democracy / f. Against democracy
|
19828
|
Democracy leads to internal strife, as people struggle to maintain or change ways of ruling [Rousseau]
|
|
19835
|
When ministers change the state changes, because they always reverse policies [Rousseau]
|
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / a. Liberalism basics
|
22602
|
Over several centuries a set of eight main liberal values was established [Dunt]
|
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / d. Liberal freedom
|
22596
|
No government, or the whole nation, can control an individual beyond legitimate scope [Dunt]
|
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / g. Liberalism critique
|
22603
|
Laissez-faire liberalism failed to give people the protections and freedoms needed for a good life [Dunt]
|
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 10. Theocracy
|
19849
|
In early theocracies the god was the king, and there were as many gods as nations [Rousseau]
|
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 14. Nationalism
|
22592
|
Nationalism pretends that we can only have a single identity [Dunt]
|