York University

• SOSC 3375

• Sept 13, 2018 Liberal Lifeworlds Lifeworld ● “The ontological(what we know), epistemological(how we know) and cosmological how we got there)framework through which the world appears to people. In other works, I argue that lifeworlds begin with creation stories. Of course, within a people, individual persons will always have unique perspectives; none is determined by their lifeworld.This is to say that lifeworld establishes a range of possibility, not a set of determate ends” (p850, note 6). ● Creation stories (lifeworld begins here) (i.e Moses-legal story, big bang, Adam and Eve) ● Classic definition of the state: “human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory.” (Max Weber) ● “Constitutionalism” ○ “By Anishnaabe “constitutionalism” I don’t mean a combination of founding documents and informal but clearly established conventions: such ideas repre