On this account, the Empire represented a social order that was hierarchical, religious, and supranational, a hotbed of retrograde or even
illiberal views, whereas the ethnically based nations Wilson favored were harbingers of a progressive future of «self - determination.»
Not exact matches
What makes them wary, however, is the even more
illiberal desire to inject the
views and interests of progressive social causes into the methodology of science itself (hypothesis formation, experiment, analysis) and perhaps even into its conclusions.
Critical scholars can not ignore such voices for they underline the necessity of moving beyond interpretations that
view the politics of building peace as driven by a Manichean split between liberal and
illiberal political epistemologies.
In an online article for the i newspaper, Laws said: «You can not be a leader of a liberal party while holding fundamentally
illiberal and prejudiced
views, which fail to respect our party's great traditions of promoting equality for all our citizens.
But on the constitutional issue of balancing the allegedly competing considerations of religious liberty and equality rights, the Court gets it quite right when it concludes that «[t] his case demonstrates that a well - intentioned majority acting in the name of tolerance and liberalism, can, if unchecked, impose its
views on the minority in a manner that is in itself intolerant and
illiberal.»