There was greater unity to
classical liberalism ideology than there had been with Whiggery.
Not exact matches
On the tension in Hartshorne's thought between
classical and contemporary
liberalism, see Randall Morris, Process Philosophy and Political
Ideology (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991).
American
liberalism, the dominant
Ideology of the Democratic Party, was formed from two strands:
Classical liberalism, the philosophy formed in the Enlightenment by thinkers like John Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau, and providing the driving force for both the American Revolution and the French Revolution, which states that the autonomy of the individual...
Classical liberalism is a political
ideology and a branch of
liberalism which advocates civil liberties under the rule of law with an emphasis on economic freedom.
Though the MR's original
ideology emphasised
classical liberalism and free market economics, it has of late joined the general trend of Belgian liberals to accept elements of social
liberalism under the influence of Dirk Verhofstadt, whose brother Guy Verhofstadt led the MR's Flemish counterpart, the Open VLD.
Perhaps one of the greatest conundrums of
classical liberal philosophy is the tolerance that
classical liberalism exhibits towards those who choose to follow opposite
ideologies, such as communism, socialism, communitarianism and, more recently, «greenism».