Sentences with phrase «liberal democracy becomes»

He expressed the concern that liberal democracy becomes vulnerable if it loses touch with deeper metaphysical warrants.

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He traces our unease to the father of liberal democracy, John Locke, and to his claim that what nature provides for us is «virtually worthless,» becoming valuable only when mixed with our labor.

The few available attempts to link Whiteheadian metaphysics with political categories can be illustrated in the works of A. H. Johnson and Samuel Beer.1 Essentially, they become exercises in identifying which existing political alternative — liberal democracy, social - revolutionary democracy, fascism, etc. — is most synonymous with Whitehead's formulations.

What the international community needs to guard against is allowing the ICC to become a tool that Western liberal democracies can impose on developing country leaders who have fallen out of political favour.

Populist insurgents will not just stop at correcting liberals» mistakes: they will go further by destroying many institutions without which democracy can not function and capitalism becomes predatory.

If this is all that republicanism has to offer then it becomes barely distinguishable from existing liberal democracies.

By this time he was a Liberal activist and became a public affairs consultant, among other things advising emergent democracies in Bosnia, Lithuania and Albania and also becoming director of an internet company.

It does upset me that people have become cynical and contemptuous of the institutions of liberal democracy that, for all their flaws, have tremendously improved our lives.

I focus on these issues because I think that liberal democracy can not survive the kinds of inequalities that have now become the norm in the industrialized world.

With the coming into force of the Constitution Act, 1982 we became a mature liberal democracy with much greater rights protection for vulnerable minorities and all citizens.