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Social liberalism seeks to enhance the freedom of the individual as well as empower them and their communities as part of a vibrant local democracy.
Not exact matches
As it
seeks to apply this voluntarism to marriage and family, which are not mere
social constructs but are firmly anchored in God's creation, we may see
liberalism at last reaching a breaking point.
Liberalism's founders tended to take for granted the persistence of
social norms, even as they
sought to liberate individuals from those constitutive associations and the accompanying education in self - limitation that sustained these norms.
My predecessor at Duke, H. Shelton Smith, asserted (in Faith and Nurture) the important unity of education and theology and
sought to build a bridge between
liberalism's concern with the
social order and neo-orthodoxy's concern for the tradition.
A wise third party (and the Libertarians are not wise) would
seek to claim the fiscal conservative mantle while redefining «
social conservatism» as a form of
liberalism and embracing what we now call «
social liberalism».
That was the voguish creed advanced by Lord Maurice Glasman and Jon Cruddas, among others, during the last parliament,
seeking to anchor Labour in its earlier traditions of community, mutualism, localism and self - help, rejecting the excesses 1980s neo-
liberalism and 1960s
social liberalism alike.