Sentences with phrase «liberal tradition»

In other words, all traditions are excluded except the modern liberal tradition of the autonomous self, centered in individual rights.

Of course the arguments for improving the world of work are rooted in strong liberal tradition.

The tuition policy is part of a strongly liberal tradition.

Some historians of the American experience emphasize the radical break between the ancient, classic tradition of the «liberal» arts and the modern liberal tradition.

It is called «revised» to distinguish it from the co-relational model of liberal tradition.

Within the classical liberal tradition, there is desire for a political system to respect the right to live free from physical force, for a government of limited function in the protection of rights, and for powers to be exercised in accordance with laws objective and universal.

At least in part because of what historian William R. Hutchison has identified as the «adaptionist» impulse within the American liberal tradition, mainline religion has partaken heavily of the diminished certitudes of modern existence.

Barth's theological training in the great liberal tradition of Schleiermacher, Ritschl, Harnack, and Herrmann had not prepared him to deal with this dilemma, nor had his immersion in the Swiss version of the social gospel movement, an involvement which earned him the title «red pastor» for a while.

It was the political home of much of the radical liberal tradition and socially liberal political advocacy in the crucial period from the 1950s to the mid-1970s: for example Crosland's advocacy of social liberalism in the Future of Socialism and Roy Jenkins» period as Home Secretary.

For the dominant liberal tradition, the answer has basically been «no.»

However, I am bold enough to suggest that the Protestant liberal tradition has a message that needs to be reaffirmed today.

Is there a self - sustaining liberal tradition in the pews right now that's not being noticed (liberal Catholicism not parasitic upon anything)?

The cultural shifts of the 1960s further exacerbated this prejudice against authority when the larger liberal tradition took the form of what I have elsewhere called the «choice - enhancement state.»

The classic liberal tradition (represented in such thinkers as Hume, Jefferson and Kant) prided itself on its critical» spirit.

Bonhoeffer was deeply related to the whole German liberal tradition.

Here it presents Rawls and Dworkin as representatives of a social liberal tradition that values income equality in itself.

It has been part of a long liberal tradition, from John Stuart Mill to Jo Grimond...»

There is much common ground, too, with the ideas for «community - wealth building» being developed very concretely by the Democracy Collaborative in the US, though there is a stronger emphasis in their work on the need to root capital in specific places than one usually finds in the alternative liberal tradition.

A similar pattern emerged during the general election where Nick Clegg and David Laws followed to the letter the historical liberal tradition of splitting the progressive vote.

Rather than confront a growing attack on the British liberal tradition, the Conservative - led government decided to co-opt their ideas and rhetoric.

The Orange Book, Laws wrote, was an attempt to reassert these economically liberal traditions.

In a provocative opening essay, Laws argued that the Liberal Democrats had neglected their party's pro-market economic liberal tradition, and had instead lapsed into a policy mindset little better than «soggy socialism»; they had placed too much faith in the power of the state to improve people's lives, and too little faith in the power of choice and competition.

Welcome to Birmingham, a city with a great, outspoken liberal tradition.

Albany needs a strong leader; a leader in the NY liberal tradition.

In his famous Postscript to The Constitution of Liberty, Friedrich von Hayek identified Thomas Aquinas as «the first Whig,» and has several times since noted how important it is to distinguish the Whig tradition from that of many exponents of the classical liberal tradition.

It is sometimes charged that the Anglo - American liberal tradition is excessive in its emphasis upon the individual and deficient in its philosophy of community.

A very lively city, with a great liberal tradition, Malaga stays open late and its citizens have a fierce devotion for their city.

Underpinning many of these ideas is Miliband's big picture argument for a new «progressive fusion» — that Labour can revive itself by «integrating the insights of the social democratic and the radical liberal traditions.

The Dutch have done much soul - searching over why a country with such a strong liberal tradition has a socking great cuckoo in its political nest.

Specifically, I will argue that Whitehead's perspective yields an understanding of happiness sufficiently different from the liberal view that Whitehead's thought can be the basis for a transcendence of the liberal tradition.

Although «metaphysical individualism» is far from synonymous with the liberal tradition, something like it has frequently appeared as the basis for the instrumental theory of human community, i.e., human community is said to be solely instrumental to happiness because it does not constitute human existence.

However, the liberal tradition (Teilhard de Chardin, for example) has reduced the ascended Lord to the dynamics of history.

The liberal tradition, then, is one of the normative perspectives from which this approach to political science means to be independent.

This view is, I hold, more or less pervasively affirmed, explicitly or implicitly, throughout the liberal tradition, so that its absence would provide good reason to doubt whether the theory in question is a part of that tradition.

Each of the three will denote the good for a human individual.1 Because of its long association with the liberal tradition, «interest» is so often used to mean an individual's private happiness that the phrase «private view of interest» may seem redundant.

This reading of the liberal tradition is in accord with Wolfe's claim that liberalism is «methodologically individualist.»

Those of us in the liberal tradition were strongly drawn to the various liberation theologies, but those of us who were white North American males remained outsiders.

Predictably my comment was that Barth had rejected a kind of contextual theology found in the liberal tradition.

Which is why, again, I think we need to listen to those who warn us that our liberal tradition has become decadent, and that we need to defend freedom with deeper, more theological arguments.

In the society in which we actually live, it's the progressive law school professors who use elements of the liberal tradition to argue that the First Amendment is indefensible, because it provides special rights to religious people.

On theological questions, the same truth obtains: for example, Protestant neo-orthodoxy, as Wilhelm Pauck insisted, is a self - critical moment within the liberal tradition; it was not and should not become a return to a premodern orthodoxy.

In the liberal tradition we have done a better job at pointing out the range of sin in the horizontal dimension and have aroused something of a conscience over such matters as mass exploitation, child labor, race discrimination, preventable disease, and indiscriminate killing in war, which our Christian fathers less often thought of as sin.

The fundamental principle of the market economy within the liberal tradition is its right to private property.

Liberals have lost touch with that, especially the evangelistic dimension, and process theologians coming from the liberal tradition share this weakness.

The neoconservatives were appalled by what had become of liberalism, but they understood that to break entirely with the liberal tradition would be to break with the American experiment.