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Jan 18, 1999 · To establish and secure the personal freedom of all, the liberal tradition has articulated a set of characteristic themes including individual rights, consent, toleration, liberty of thought and discussion, self-interest rightly understood, the separation of the private from the public, and personal autonomy or the primacy of individual choice; ...
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.
It considers various interpretations of his thought with two primary concerns: first, to discover whether any of them, singly or in combination, account for the ethical basis of his liberalism; and secondly, to see if there is a satisfactory moral theory grounding that liberal philosophy.
In this course we will explore: I) the major theoretical and cultural origins of modern liberalism as a context for understanding the foremost work in contemporary liberal theory, II) a selection of critical problems which liberal political regimes face today, and III) some of the most influential and troubling criticisms of liberalism that have...
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.
Nov 27, 2020 · John Stuart Mill and modern liberalism: A study in contrasts. Gregory Conti. First published: 27 November 2020. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12533. Read the full text.
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Jul 1, 2007 · This chapter assesses the rise of modern liberalism by examining the works of selected theorists and their fellow liberal critics. The first section summarizes the origins and subsequent development of modern liberal thinking on the family by examining the works of Hugo Grotius and Johannes Althusius, followed by contractarian (Thomas Hobbes ...
