All contributions and communication are welcome, so long as they do not (within this project space) espouse, entertain, advocate for, or otherwise positively discuss the political ideals associated with Social Justice, Progressivism, Communism, Socialism, Fascism, Marxism, or anything else generally reminiscent of any political philosophy to the left
of Classical Liberals or Libertarians.
Second, the whole point
of classical liberals is that low wage industrial employees are overall BETTER off under lassiez fair economy than Left's favorite planned economy.
Adam Smith, the founder
of classical liberal economic theory, was also deeply concerned with morality.
For consider Whitehead's piece «An Appeal to Sanity,» which contains thoughts meant to gladden the heart
of any classical liberal:
As to your question, the American Conservative can justify the Revolutionary war by means of support
of classical Liberal Ideology, under which, a government derives power from the consent of the govern.
Mark Littlewood, Communications Director
of the classical liberal think tank Progressive Vision, is a former head of media for the Liberal Democrats.
Perhaps one of the greatest conundrums
of classical liberal philosophy is the tolerance that classical liberalism exhibits towards those who choose to follow opposite ideologies, such as communism, socialism, communitarianism and, more recently, «greenism».
Not exact matches
TUTORIAL: The Austrian School
Of Economics The
Classical -
Liberal Perspective The accepted mainstream view about central banks, such as the Federal Reserve, is that we need them to manage economic growth and ensure prosperity through interest rate manipulation and other interventions.
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.
As a result the Wesleyan tradition, like most other
classical traditions, has had both its fundamentalist and its more
liberal wings
of interpretation.
As far as the iron law
of dharma goes... well, it is quite extraordinary how
liberal classical Thai culture's moral expectations
of its gods could be.
The problem is that a basic tenet
of classical liberalism — a tenet generally accepted in the Western world by «
liberals,» as well as by many «conservatives» — is that differences regarding fundamental principles
of human nature and morality are not a threat to social and political life.
Even if all parties were to agree that American republicanism is not classically
liberal, or that
classical liberalism really is ontologically indifferent, or that the laws
of nature and
of nature's God are the foundation
of constitutional order and that these are the same thing as natural law — even if, in other words, all parties were to agree to some version
of a pristine American founding harmonious in principle with the truth
of God and the human being — returning to the first principles
of the eighteenth century isn't much more realistic than a return to the first principles
of the thirteenth.
Therefore, it is fair to say that the ontological presuppositions
of liberal political theory were fated to undermine the
classical and Christian moral inheritance and the nobility
of liberalism's own ideals.
My
liberal colleagues were even less interested in puzzling out the continuity
of truth in
classical doctrine than were hard - nosed biblicists.
Assuming these traits are fundamental to the American political mind, most political theorists see this as reflecting the
classical liberal mind — distinct from the «modern
liberal» view which accepts the legitimacy
of the welfare state — not a conservative mind.
Any radically monotheistic understanding
of the reality
of God (whether
classical, process, liberationist or
liberal) affirms the strict universality
of the divine reality.
Lest the reader suppose that only
classical authors can be faulted for Scripture - twisting, let me hasten to give an example
of it in the most avant - garde
liberal theology at the present time.
In the late 19th century, under the deforming impact
of dispensational pessimism and
liberal optimism, the broad river
of classical evangelicalism divided into a delta, with shallower streams emphasizing — ecumenism and social renewal on the left and confessional orthodoxy and evangelism on the right.
The attack has frequently been directed at the idea
of liberal education itself, apart from its
classical form.
And
classical music has been driven out by rock music, whose explicit sexual themes lead to rebellion against parental authority and to ruin
of the youthful imagination, making «it very difficult for them to have a passionate relationship to the art and thought that are the substance
of liberal education» (p. 79).
Classical liberal education was essentially general, because
of its reliance upon literary works
of broad human pertinence.
The questions with which this book chiefly deals first began to claim major attention from me through my participation in the Institute
of Liberal Arts at Emory University and especially in the seminars on
classical Greece.
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.
By a curious semantic reversal, freedom in
classical «
liberal» economics meant the absence
of deliberate human intervention in economic processes.
The standard
classical meaning
of liberal learning is that it is a privilege
of freedom.
The
classical ideal
of liberal learning arose in the context
of a slave economy, and its association with class distinctions persists even today.
I know
of no group
of people in the United States more reflexively
liberal than
classical musicians, and none more unanimous in the belief that abortion should remain legal and wholly unrestricted in its availability.
We may well join authentic non-Christian
liberals in trying to make future social conditions as tolerable as possible, while avoiding the totalitarian dictatorship
of classical communism such as is still practiced today.
Would the conference focus on the difference between the Christian conception
of freedom and the secular conception
of freedom, or would it be more
of an internal argument, an enumeration
of Catholic arguments against the
classical liberal project?
While it is true that
classical musicians in general may be as «reflexively
liberal» as any group
of people in the United States, the fact is that there are many
of us who are not.
In brief, my response to this fundamental affirmation
of liberal Protestantism would he that the idea
of the ultimate value and reality
of the individual is historically limited to the
classical period
of modern Western culture, and that it can have neither a living meaning nor a truly human form in a post-modern or post-
liberal period
of history.
They weren't even truly
liberal — not in the
classical sense
of freely pursuing knowledge.
They have created and run organizations aimed at restoring a
classical liberal arts education for students
of all ages.
Colm: I fear you are allowing your (and my) disagreements with the
classical liberal / libertarian right on social and economic policy to get in the way
of the possibility
of useful discussion
of civil liberties issues.
Therefore, this convulsion will see the reconfiguration
of the
classical left - right political axis into one composed
of liberal cosmopolitanism versus anti-
liberal populism.
Tomasi wants to promote his
classical liberal vision
of economic organization, but the force
of his underlying moral vision pushes in an entirely different direction.
But while Tomasi's critique
of egalitarianism and trenchant defense
of capitalism enrich the
classical liberal position and extend the debate on what constitutes justice, ultimately they don't hold up.
It's from small towns, suburbs, cities and the middle
of nowhere; it's
liberal, conservative, radical and none -
of - the - above; its parents are straight, gay and confused; it listens to country, rock and roll, Tejano, jazz,
classical and hip hop; and its friends, lovers and family are white, black, brown and every shade you can imagine in between.
5.30 pm LeftWatch: Beneath the tedium
of the Lib Dem conference is an ideological battle between social democrats and
classical liberals
There's one other way that American liberalism differs from
classical liberalism:
classical liberals took a deontological perspective on liberty, viewing personal autonomy and the pursuit
of happiness as things that are inherently worthy
of being promoted, regardless
of what they lead to.
Thus Americans
liberals still try to achieve the goals
of classical liberalism, but they sometimes do it through Progressive means.
In 2004 members
of the
classical and economic
liberal strand contributed to The Orange Book, which contained free - market economic and social policies and was seen as an attempt to move the party towards the centre - ground.
The VVD is a party founded on
liberal philosophy, [38] traditionally being the most ardent supporter
of «free markets»
of all Dutch political parties, promoting political, economic liberalism,
classical liberalism, cultural liberalism, but also (in contrast to this) committed to the idea
of the welfare state.
The word
liberal really meant, in the
classical sense, the liberalization
of the individuals from the...
For one thing, what we call «libertarianism» in USA today was originally called «
classical liberalism» - and AFAIK is still called that in Europe (don't tell any
of the modern
liberals in America who get allergic reaction from a mention
of Mises or Ayn Rand:) If you mean «modern...
Some
classical liberals have ended up in the Conservative Party, but that has never been a particularly comfortable home for them because
of the ever - present authoritarian and socially illiberal strands in Conservative thinking.
Littlewood until now led the Orange Book pressure group
Liberal Vision, a classical liberal thorn in the side of social democrats within the L
Liberal Vision, a
classical liberal thorn in the side of social democrats within the L
liberal thorn in the side
of social democrats within the LibDems.
The plea that it intends to preserve the end
of individual freedom, modifying only the means, is to
classical liberals hardly to the point — as much could be claimed for most varieties
of socialism.
Classical liberals oppose these policies for a variety
of reasons, most notably because it violates the concepts
of property rights and free exchange.