Sentences with phrase «liberals think freedom»
It amazes me that liberals think freedom of speech is appropriate only if their views are the one's being voiced.
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The B.C. Liberal leader made the announcement Wednesday at a paper products company in Surrey while campaigning for the May 9 provincial election, saying an impasse over softwood lumber «gives us the freedom to do what I think is unquestionably the right thing.»
In other words, plan fiduciaries now will have greater freedom to expend portfolio resources to effect liberal social goals simply by claiming that they think doing so will have long - term benefits without having to quantify those benefits.
There is a certain way to talk about the past sounds exclusionary, like you think that America was all about freedom until Obama, or the liberals, or whatever.
But to seek a political vision more adequate than liberalism is not necessarily to repudiate liberalism entirely, and I will also discuss how the basic liberal affirmation of freedom and individuality is appropriated in Whitehead's thought.
Alternatively, if we apply a more liberal definition and suppose that free will is synonymous with freedom of choice, then surely this is the better stab: the true servants of God are those who tirelessly and unremittingly do and have done His will; the worthless are those who think for themselves.
The religious denominational pluralism and the puritan desire to prevent the state from interfering with their religious freedom along with the forces of secular liberal thought brought into being the secular democratic polity with its clear separation between religion and state in the USA.
(John Dewey, «Qualitative Thought,» reprinted in Richard J. Bernstein, ed., John Dewey on Experience, Nature, and Freedom [New York: Liberal Arts Press, 1960], p. 187.)
Classroom ridicule of religion was merely harmless joking, Kernan thought, and it was absurd to imagine that liberals could ever violate the academic freedom of conservatives.
This understanding of freedom follows from the natural - rights liberal thought of John Locke, Immanuel Kant, and Robert Nozick, but it is also consistent with the rights - generating rule - utilitarianism of Herbert Spencer and others.
Peter learned two things from the dissidents: the notion of «living in the truth»; and the disconcerting thought that Communism and Western liberal democracy had things in common, modern science to begin with, that challenged human freedom and dignity.
Thirty - two Muslim essayists affirm conventional Western liberal doctrines such as the separation of church and state, the equal rights of women, and freedom of thought and speech.
It is the merit of liberal thought to have taken human freedom much more seriously.
For that reason, liberal Christians are indulging in a pipedream if they think the Church has the freedom to alter her teaching on sexual morality.
Liberals celebrated their freedom to think freely, shape their lives responsibly, and be confident in God's love and acceptance.
An early work in political thought influenced by Whitehead's philosophy that stresses reason, individual freedom, and liberal democracy is Samuel H. Beers The City of Reason (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1949).
His Utilitarian thinking is not directly related to liberal notions like equality, private property and freedom, even though these may naturally arise from maximising utility.
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.
According to O'Neill, the case for press freedom, in the liberal tradition, posits that the open debate of thought through an uncensored media produces unfiltered knowledge and gives way to «truth - seeking.»
Liberals want: 1) individual rights; 2) equality of opportunity; 3) freedom of thought and speech; 3) limitations on the power of governments; 4) the rule of law; 5) individual's right to private property; 6) a transparent system of government; 7) open and fair elections; and 8) commitment to scientific inquiry.
I'm not a libertarian, nor do I agree with most Americans of liberal inclinations that freedom of political speech should be practically absolute, but I do think restrictions on it with the force of law should be imposed very cautiously and under intense public scrutiny.