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To: koan who wrote (61030)	2/13/2010 5:23:32 AM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217942

A large proportion of the 25% of the world's goods and services are produced in the US or by US corporations. It is not the best comparison, many countries have many people and produce very little.

To: koan who wrote (61030)	8/29/2012 1:01:59 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217942

The modern liberal democratic state that came into being after the French Revolution was, simply the realization of the Christian ideal of freedom and universal human equality in the here-and-now. ... Hegel gives us the opportunity to reinterprete modern liberal democracy in terms that are rather different from the Anglo-Saxon tradition of liberalism emanating from Hobbes and Locke. The Hegelian understanding of liberalism is at the same time a more noble vision of what liberalism represents and a more accurate account of what people around the world mean when they say they want to live in a democracy. For Hobbes and Locke, and their followers who wrote the American Constitution and Declaration of Independence, liberal society was a social contract between individuals who possessed some natural rights, chief among them the right to life -self preservation- and to the pursuit of happiness, which was generally understood as the right to private property. Liberal society is thus a reciprocal and equal agreement among citizens not to interfere with each other's life and property. For Hegel, by contrast, liberal society is a reciprocal and equal agreement among citizens to mutually recognize each other. If Hobbesian and Lockean liberalism can be interpreted as the pursuit of rational self interest, Hegelian liberalism can be seen as the pursuit of rational recognition, that is recognition on an universal basis which the dignity of each person as a free and autonomous human being is recognized by all. ... Hegel would never have endorsed the view of certain liberals in the Anglo-Saxon tradition, now primarily represented on the libertarian Right, who believe that government's only purpose is to get out of the way of individuals, and that latter's freedom to pursue self private interests is absolute. He would have rejected the version of liberalism that viewed political rights simply as a means by which men could protect their lives and their money or, in more contemporary language their personal "life styles". Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man. The universal and Homogeneous State pages 199-201