Donald Trump Promotes Classical Liberalism

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Classical liberalism was the dominant ideology of capitalism during the

periods of eighteenth century. It view was widely accepted. It said that

government should just sit back and watch business so they do not cheat the

government also to enforce contracts. The classical had many creeds they were

Psychological, economic, and ,political. Each view has its own points. In

this paper I will discuss those points and show you how Donald Trump is a classical

liberalist.

Psychological creed of classical liberalism is based on four assumptions

of human nature. People were believed to be egoistic, coldly calculating,

essential inert, and atomistic. Hobbes a economics argued that people were

motivated by the desire for pleasure and to avoid pain. Jeremy Bentham believed

pleasure differ in intensity but there was no qualitative difference. He argued

that "quality of pleasure being equal, to a pushpin is as good as poetry," The

theory he is trying to say about human motivation is that the we are lazy and

selfish.

A big part of classical liberalism is that we are coldly calculating.

Being coldly calculating means that when a situation comes about we dissever

what will make us receive less pain and more pleasure. Although the human

motivation is by pleasure it is the decision that are cold, selfish,

dispassionate, and rational assessment of the situation to choose how to avoid

the pain and receive the pleasure. The emphasis on the importance of rational

measurement...

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