Provenance Flashcards
What did John Locke live through and reject?
Lived through the civil war, doesn’t like absolute monarchs who are unpredictable and use god as a reasoning to rule.
What did Locke believe in?
Social contract between governing and governed. Important that people have their natural rights protected and their private property in particular
What did Locke not consider?
He doesn’t really think shout women or non- landing owning class
What did Wollestonecraft believe?
Social contract updated for women and it’s irrational not to include them
Where did Wollestonecraft visit and what did she criticise?
Visits France in the revolution and strongly criticises Burke. Supports removing absolute monarchs
Man left her with a child out of wedlock
What was John Mill aware of?
During industrialisation and was aware of how working classes were being mistreated
What did John Mill start calling for?
Starts calling for the development of the individual so thinking about what they can becoming not what they are
Example- wanted more educational rights
What did Hill green live through?
Lived through Industrial Revolution and sees poverty growing from child labour and the lack of state regulation
Why was Hill greens marriage significant?
Married to a women promoting girls education and said the state should provide universal education
Campaigned for all men to have the right to vote.
Challenged negative liberty with positive liberty
What did Rawls right in?
Fought in pacific in WW2 and was brutal. Interested in what is fairness and justice.
Vietnam war- so more conscious of the plight of the vulnerable
During Rawls’ years of writing what was part of the consensus?
Democracy and universal sufferage part of the consensus
What was Betty Friedan?
Middle class, white, college educated house wife
Stopped work to bring up children and therefore experienced the “problem with no name”
Where did Friedan live and what did she experience?
Lived in the suburbs with Similair women, saw many women take sedative drugs to get by
