Sentences with phrase «liberal democratic ideals»

-- which invites answers measuring how well non-western countries fare in relation to a presumed model of western secularism — I start from liberal democratic ideals and assume that they are not ethnocentric: human rights, freedom, equality and democracy are universal aspirations.

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The idea of a Chosen People has usually seemed repugnant to the liberal spirit, particularly in a democratic society where the ideal of equality runs strong.

But Ober is more interested in confronting modern liberal and post-liberal «democracy» with the genuine ancient ideal, the Athenian «people power» of the fifth and fourth centuries b.c., on which he has had so many original and persuasive things to say since publishing Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens in 1989.

This bolstered Miliband's faith that democratic Islamist parties would adhere to this liberal ideal.

«Brian Ellner could not be trusted with the rights of L.G.B.T. people, when he has a history of taking care of Brian Ellner and securing employment at the expense of ideals,» said Allen Roskoff, an advocate and the president of the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club, an influential group in gay politics.

Influenced by the utopian ideals of the progressive education movement, it placed the arts at the center of liberal arts education and believed that in doing so it could better educate citizens for participation in a democratic society.