Not exact matches
It also comes as no great revelation that those same leaders overwhelmingly agree that the constituting elements
of democratic capitalism» political
freedom, democracy, free markets, and the free flow
of ideas» are good not just for Americans but for the world.
Dewey's point is that we can not create a truly
democratic community without extending the
ideas of freedom and choice and the pooling
of intelligence to all modes
of human association.
The traditional spirit bases mutual toleration
of historical differences on the
idea that they are parts
of the same truth, while the modern spirit
of democratic toleration
of differences is on the basis that though they are essentially different, reverence for each other as persons requires respect for each other's
freedom to differ.
The rise to dominance
of a single market - driven advertiser - sponsored and ideologically coherent press system, claiming to represent diverse publics, and invoking Constitutional protection
of its
freedom to virtually preempt the marketplace
of ideas, further strains
democratic political theory.
Nevertheless the Christian doctrine
of the relation between the ethics
of Law and Grace, the Hindu concept
of paramarthika and vyavaharika realms, the Islamic concept
of shariat law versus the transcendent law, and the equivalent ones in secular ideologies like the Marxist
idea of the present morality
of class - war leading to the necessary love
of the class-less society
of the future need to be brought into the inter-faith dialogue to build up a common
democratic political ethic for maintaining order and
freedom with the continued struggle for social justice, and also a common civil morality within which diverse peoples may renew their different traditions
of civil codes.
«As part
of this Hattersley wrote a book «Choose
Freedom», which was a decent attempt, particularly given the constraints on a very senior serving frontbencher, to popularise in general politics the
ideas of John Rawls, Tawney and Crosland, rooting social
democratic politics in a positive conception
of liberty.
«The Constitutional protections afforded the
freedom to engage in association by the Independence Party and the Independent
Democratic Conference for the advancement
of beliefs and
ideas through
freedom of speech is a core value established by the First Amendment.
In his article Roy sets out to make three arguments: that policy needs to be built on a consistent and coherent
idea; that the only tenable ideological position for Labour is a social
democratic commitment to greater equality and the
freedom that is its product; and that Labour should eschew «news value» in favour
of ideology.
He described «the
idea of a new kind
of freedom, a
freedom of expression, a very
democratic kind
of principle» which had taught him, through the Black Mountain community's alertness to new
ideas, that art could be anything.