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- Liberalism is, at its heart, the belief that each individual person has moral priority over their community or society when it comes to determining the course of their life.
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Liberalism is founded on the belief that individual freedom should be the basis of a just society. Who should decide how you live your life: where you reside; what career you choose; whom you can marry; and which gods you worship?
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Nov 28, 1996 · Liberalism is a philosophy that starts from a premise that political authority and law must be justified. If citizens are obliged to exercise self-restraint, and especially if they are obliged to defer to someone else’s authority, there must be a reason why. Restrictions on liberty must be justified.
Nov 28, 1996 · Liberal theories form a broad continuum, from those that constitute full-blown philosophical systems, to those that rely on a full theory of value and the good, to those that rely on a theory of the right (but not the good), all the way to those that seek to be purely political doctrines.
Oct 23, 2024 · Liberalism is a political and economic doctrine that emphasizes individual autonomy equality of opportunity, and the protection of individual rights (primarily to life, liberty, and property), originally against the state and later against both the state and private economic actors, including businesses.
- The intellectual founders of liberalism were the English philosopher John Locke (1632–1704), who developed a theory of political authority based on...
- In John Locke’s theory, the consent of the governed was secured through a system of majority rule, whereby the government would carry out the expre...
- Classical liberals (now often called libertarians) regard the state as the primary threat to individual freedom and advocate limiting its powers to...
- Modern liberals are generally willing to experiment with large-scale social change to further their project of protecting and enhancing individual...
Liberalism in both theory and practice is concerned to promote social outcomes that are, as far as possible, the result of free individual choices. However, the choice of one person that does not respect the equal freedom and rights of others is invalid.
Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property and equality before the law.
Liberalism is here understood as a group of related political, social, and economic doctrines and institutions. In political thought, it is associated with nonauthoritarianism, the rule of law, constitutional government with limited powers, and the guarantee of civil and political liberties.
