Civil Society: Historic Development

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Civil Society Historic Development

• From Anti Slavery to Fee Trade Organic Coffee

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Moral Foundations of the Third Sector

• The new age would be one of reason and
  benevolence, of freedom and humanitarianism, of
  equality and justice and self-rule. And of course
  these ideas of freedom and dignity, in
  association with the promotion of ordinary life,
  have steadily eroded hierarchy and promoted
  equality- and that in all sorts of dimensions,
  between social classes, races, ethnic and
  cultural groups, and the sexes. (Charles
  Taylor, Sources of The Self, the making of the
  modern Identity, Harvard University Press p.
  387-395, )

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Liverpool Society for the Abolition of Slavery
Statement of 1823

• the practice of combining society itself in
  intellectual masses, for the purpose of attaining
  some certain, defined, and acknowledged good,
  which is generally allowed to be essential to the
  well-being of the whole. (Taylor pp395-396)

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A Vision of the Good

• A vision of the good becomes available for the
  people of a given culture through being given
  expression in some mannerUniversal Rights of
  mankind exist for us because they have been
  promulgated, because philosophers have theorized
  about them, because revolutions have been fought
  in their name and so on. (Taylor p. 91)A

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Characteristics of the anti-slavery movement

• Non Hierarchical
• Bottom up
• Participatory
• Rights Based
• Anti-establishment

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The Space Occupied by Civil Society

• Individualism - Civil Society - Stateism
• Individual Social The National
• Rights Justice Interest
• Property Interests Ordinary
  Life Patriotic Advancement