Hobhouse believed that one of the defining characteristics of liberalism was its emancipatory character, something that he believed ran constant
from classical liberalism to the social liberalism he advocated.
There's one other way that American liberalism differs
from classical liberalism: classical liberals took a deontological perspective on liberty, viewing personal autonomy and the pursuit of happiness as things that are inherently worthy of being promoted, regardless of what they lead to.
But mostly their foreign policy views were taken
from classical liberalism, so they they're antiwar for the most part.
The neoconservative Catholic often draws attention to a progressive fall
from classical liberalism, while the radical Catholic sees our current crisis as the outworking of liberalism's deepest premises.
Not exact matches
Principally because of its utilitarian usage, «happiness» has something of the same problem, although it also has
classical associations that make it more easily disengaged
from liberalism.
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 should be maximized, and the individual should be freed
from whatever institutions are preventing them
from reaching their potential, be it the Church or the State.
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...
For one thing, what we call «libertarianism» in USA today was originally called «
classical liberalism» - and AFAIK is still called that in Europe (don't tell any of the modern liberals in America who get allergic reaction
from a mention of Mises or Ayn Rand:) If you mean «modern...
[7] The term «
classical liberalism» was applied in retrospect to distinguish earlier 19th - century
liberalism from the newer social
liberalism.
While few major British businesses were overtly aligned to Thatcherism - let alone
classical liberalism - they undoubtedly benefited
from those politicians that were so aligned.
[23]: 14 — 15 The impetus for this development arose
from a desire to avoid repeating the economic failures of the early 1930s, which neoliberals mostly blamed on the economic policy of
classical liberalism.
In the decades that followed, the use of the term «neoliberal» tended to refer to theories which diverged
from the more laissez - faire doctrine of
classical liberalism and which promoted instead a market economy under the guidance and rules of a strong state, a model which came to be known as the social market economy.