Liberalism is a political and social ideology that values individual freedoms and equality. It promotes ideas like personal liberty, limited government intervention, and the protection of basic human rights. It emphasizes the importance of democracy, diversity, and progress.
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Even so, the large size of the two secular groups helps explain the power of social
liberalism in national politics.
However, some American fiscal conservatives view wider social
liberalism as an impetus for increased spending on these programs.
In the preceding lecture I dealt
with liberalism without discussing its relation to social issues.
How we are to evaluate and challenge creatively the heirs of
modern liberalism depends on what we take freedom to be, and not to be.
Selected essays
on liberalism, tradition, and civil society by one of the more humane social thinkers of this American century.
In the case both of higher education and of government, the controlling definition of reality is supplied
by liberalism.
Some political parties (ie
economic liberalism) want a «weak» state that has less influence, other seek a strong one.
I am not free to perform the theological reduction that marks the shift to humanity in
religious liberalism.
In sum, the problem with Christian
liberalism does not concern its lack of clarity about what can and can not change within the hierarchy of truths.
It is doubtful that any society, certainly any free society, could long persist on the basis of
secular liberalism alone.
From housing, to opportunity, to the refugee crisis, he gave an honest account of
what liberalism looks like, both in terms of policy and rhetoric.
The twin outcomes of this effort, the depletion of moral self - command and the depletion of material resources, make inevitable an inquiry into what comes
after liberalism.
They told him to stay in post and fight to defend the cause of
liberalism at the general election.
In today's discussions
about liberalism and its future, Politics of the Person stands to enrich our appreciation of democracy and human rights.
The critical element however is in optimal economic growth this century, the conditions for which were defined by
classic liberalism over the past two centuries.
Just what is this «active,
muscular liberalism» that the prime minister is calling for, and how do we know when we're doing it?
Ethical liberalism does not assume this, but instead assumes that people have some concept of «good» (or virtue) that helps them decide what to do.
I will pick up from my discussion of
how liberalism has been radically open to the sciences and to historical scholarship.
Only now the compulsive state religion, or at least our new civil religion, is supposed to be
progressive liberalism.
That process will ask hard questions, to which the history of
British liberalism supplies some of the answers.
Eventually, his theological and political
liberalism became more than leaders in the denomination could bear, and he lost his career of 19 years.
It is a racist ideology which emerges
when liberalism breaks down and people are unable to realistically analyse society.
This sounds very much like the earlier liberal analysis of the situation, but it differs from the
earlier liberalism in one fundamental respect.
Its immature on your part and its part of the reason
why liberalism is getting its clock cleaned in this country.
In this way they enter into a relationship of conflict with
liberalism rather than simply offering a different emphasis.
We may mention in passing that
such liberalism is actually very old - fashioned.
You seem to
think liberalism ended in the late 80s; untrue, else why would conservatives keep screaming about liberal bias in the media?
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