It is characterized
by social liberalism [1] and combines ideas of civil liberty and equality with support for social justice and a mixed economy.
Not exact matches
Castigating a «popular piety» such as associated with
liberalism in its political and
social rhetoric, she says that we «mark our gain in sensibility and our loss of vision,» in that having lost faith, «we govern
by tenderness,» a tenderness «wrapped in theory.»
The problem is that a basic tenet of classical
liberalism — a tenet generally accepted in the Western world
by «liberals,» as well as
by many «conservatives» — is that differences regarding fundamental principles of human nature and morality are not a threat to
social and political life.
Liberalism and Marxism, which both saw natural law as carrying history upward to a new, glorious age, have been challenged
by the
social dynamics of Spengler, Nietzsche, Toynbee, and Sorokin.
It looks like retreat to liberals because it denies certain notions
by which
liberalism supported
social action.
Of course men are corrupted
by evil
social institutions; but if the
social processes fully explain man's behavior, then the freedom which
liberalism has claimed for man is denied.
Social action was not informed by a lively sense of Christian community, rigorous prayer, and disciplined Bible study; our secular critics and our conservative brothers and sisters were not far off the mark in describing Christian social analysis as warmed - over liber
Social action was not informed
by a lively sense of Christian community, rigorous prayer, and disciplined Bible study; our secular critics and our conservative brothers and sisters were not far off the mark in describing Christian
social analysis as warmed - over liber
social analysis as warmed - over
liberalism.
Both in opposition and then in government Oliver's principal aim had been to help a succession of leaders to move the Conservative Party towards a particular ideological position —
social and economic
liberalism, tempered
by a commitment to
social justice and environmental stewardship, both globally and nationally.
The marrying of
social liberalism to Tory dryness on economics is the Conservatism espoused
by Boris Johnson in London and the Coalition Government in the country.
But it is important to note that not all members favour
social liberalism — many endorse the approach taken
by Clegg.
We (I was the Liberal Democrats» director of policy between 1999 and 2004) developed a modern restatement of the
social liberalism, called «New Liberalism» in its day, espoused by Hobhouse: social liberalism, greened and decentralised to meet the challenges of the 21s
liberalism, called «New
Liberalism» in its day, espoused by Hobhouse: social liberalism, greened and decentralised to meet the challenges of the 21s
Liberalism» in its day, espoused
by Hobhouse:
social liberalism, greened and decentralised to meet the challenges of the 21s
liberalism, greened and decentralised to meet the challenges of the 21st century.
There is a tradition of debates on the role of the state in Liberal politics that stretches back to the 1870s, but
by the early 20th century,
social liberalism was dominant.
The rich tradition of alternative
liberalism has much to offer
by way of solutions to inexorably widening inequality — as
social movements are beginning to realise.
liberalism a political orientation that favors
social progress
by reform and
by changing laws rather than
by revolution
A number of features stand out: gender; left - wing identity;
social liberalism; campaign activism; feelings about the leadership; and the possibility that the ranks of the newer members, and those that support Jeremy Corbyn, may have been swollen
by what we call «educated left - behinds» — people who, given their qualifications, might have been expecting to earn more than they currently do.
The strand of
social liberalism in the party is influenced
by William Beveridge, who is credited with drafting further advancements of the welfare state, and economist John Maynard Keynes.
Founded
by a merger of the
Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Party, the party can be simplistically labelled as a mixture of economic liberalism and social liberalism, and it has become fashionable to insist that while the party could sit comfortably with such differences when in opposition, it is much trickier when in government, particularly as a minority
Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Party, the party can be simplistically labelled as a mixture of economic
liberalism and
social liberalism, and it has become fashionable to insist that while the party could sit comfortably with such differences when in opposition, it is much trickier when in government, particularly as a minority
social liberalism, and it has become fashionable to insist that while the party could sit comfortably with such differences when in opposition, it is much trickier when in government, particularly as a minority party.
As such, fiscal conservatism today exists somewhere between classical
liberalism and contemporary consequentialist political philosophies, and is often influenced
by coinciding levels of
social conservatism.
By Duncan Brack This article was originally published in Reinventing the State:
Social Liberalism for the 21st Century.
Following a brief recent history of the national
Social Liberal Forum from Kat Dadswell, John Commons, the Chair of the Manchester party, spoke on why he felt that
Social Liberalism and
by extension the
Social Liberal Forum were particularly needed...
In Europe, this
social liberalism is closer to European Social democracy although the original form is advocated by some liberal parties in Europe as well, as with the Beveridge Group faction within the Liberal Democrats (United Kingdom), Liberals (Sweden), Danish Social Liberal Party, the Democratic Movement (France), the Italian Republican Party or the Free Democratic Party of Germany, for ex
social liberalism is closer to European
Social democracy although the original form is advocated by some liberal parties in Europe as well, as with the Beveridge Group faction within the Liberal Democrats (United Kingdom), Liberals (Sweden), Danish Social Liberal Party, the Democratic Movement (France), the Italian Republican Party or the Free Democratic Party of Germany, for ex
Social democracy although the original form is advocated
by some liberal parties in Europe as well, as with the Beveridge Group faction within the Liberal Democrats (United Kingdom), Liberals (Sweden), Danish
Social Liberal Party, the Democratic Movement (France), the Italian Republican Party or the Free Democratic Party of Germany, for ex
Social Liberal Party, the Democratic Movement (France), the Italian Republican Party or the Free Democratic Party of Germany, for example.
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.
The Lib - Dems are not liberals but Fabian
social therapists The Conservatives have long been the main home of British
liberalism and some Tory MPs are looking hopefully to the «Orange Book», published in 2004
by a group of liberals including Nick Clegg, David Laws and Vince Cable to «reclaim»
liberalism for the Lib - Dems.
True artists will always be free in their submission only to one cause - not fame or celebrity, not a career, not pieces of paper from universities, but to that of whether that colour can possibly be right, whether in saturation it is discordant with the image intended, whether a composite form is distractingly discordant to the whole, (as well exemplified in the Angel of the North), not the political agenda of
Liberalism in all things - to do as one likes privately or publicly so call it art «because I say it is», or to be «relevant» to a «handout dogma»
by revered establishment figures of any description: nothing, as Sickert put it, that follows a «finicky programme of
social pieties», and again as he says, quite rightly, defining art as «what I do» - in essence a rigid and confining agenda of a politicised mind.
If that ethos is compared with today, everyone is «told» they are an artist
by social engineers whose priority, rather than the advance of artworks, is the increasing dominance of a political cause, (excessive
Liberalism), serving the optimistic idealism of «equality».