Sentences with phrase «liberal idea of freedom»

In «Two Concepts of Liberty,» Berlin mounted an extended defense of what he understood to be the liberal idea of freedom against its principal modern political competitors, fascism and communism.

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This «eye of the heart» sees freedom in a quite different way from the typical liberal idea of unfettered choice.

Such economics had no place for freedom either in the formulation of economic ideas — the liberal faith was a dogma as absolute as that of the most orthodox religion — or in the control of economic affairs.

Here we can not go into the analyses of each of these trends or the adequacy of Ferré's interpretation of the recent trends in American theology, except to say that theologians of different persuasions, with the possible exception of the so - called liberals, while recognizing the usefulness of the history of religions, nevertheless agree with Professor Hendrik Kraemer in stating that only theology «is able to produce that attitude of freedom of the spirit and of impartial understanding, combined with a criticism and evaluation transcending all imprisonment in preconceived ideas and principles as ultimate standards of reference.»

QS: The idea that there is no problem with surveillance as long as you have nothing to hide simply points to the complacency of the liberal view of freedom by contrast with the republican one.

I particularly think the idea that it «would strike a fatal blow to one of the basic freedoms of a liberal society: freedom of association» is overstated.

A crisis that is bringing into question not only the principles of asylum and of free movement within the European Union but Europe's very idea of itself as a space of liberal values, freedom, moral equality and human rights.