Sentences with phrase «modern 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.

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

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Restorative punishment, much like other practices of reconciliation, retrieves the distinctive logic of a religious tradition and brings it to bear upon modern liberal democracy.

In agreement with most nonteleological expressions in the liberal political tradition, this theory affirms that rights articulate a universal or natural moral law; but, against the persisting weight of the modern natural law tradition, the universal right to general emancipation is not bound to the assertion that human rights are independent of any inclusive good.

In contrast both to classical market economics and to Marxism, modern economics within the tradition of liberal learning recognizes the two freedoms that are proper to economic inquiry.

The claim to absolute knowledge, the appeal to a form of universalism that should inform civilization that is not based on empirical indexes alone, and the regulation of human sexuality that religious traditions promote make religion seem a threat to modern liberal society.

This trajectory suggests that the Balmesian tradition is largely correct to see the development of modern liberal culture as an integral set of often anti-religious social structures, and to see this culture as closely linked to the dynamics of Christian division.

In a general way — to state my thesis baldly — the modern «liberal» tradition excelled in devising practical institutional protections for human rights.

As I view him a first rate logical thinker, I doubt he is a liberal in the modern sense, but rather as a classical liberal in the tradition of von Hayek or even Frederick Bastiat.