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23 Οκτ 2024 · According to modern liberalism, the chief task of government is to remove obstacles that prevent individuals from living freely or from fully realizing their potential. Such obstacles include poverty , disease , discrimination , and ignorance.
23 Οκτ 2024 · Liberalism - Equality, Rights, Democracy: Such, at any rate, was the verdict reached by an increasing number of liberals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As noted above, modern liberals held that the point of government is to remove the obstacles that stand in the way of individual freedom.
Liberalism, the belief in freedom, equality, democracy and human rights, is historically associated with thinkers such as John Locke and Montesquieu, and with constitutionally limiting the power of the monarch, affirming parliamentary supremacy, passing the Bill of Rights and establishing the principle of "consent of the governed".
23 Οκτ 2024 · Liberalism - Equality, Rights, Democracy: The three decades of unprecedented general prosperity that the Western world experienced after World War II marked the high tide of modern liberalism. But the slowing of economic growth that gripped most Western countries beginning in the mid-1970s presented a serious challenge to modern liberalism.
Liberalism, liberal values and liberal institutions formed an integral part of that process of European consolidation. Fifteen years after the end of the Second World War, the liberal and democratic identity of Western Europe had been reinforced on almost all sides by the definition of the West as a place of freedom.
31 Δεκ 2022 · Liberalism is a political ideology that emphasizes individual rights, liberty, and limited government. It is based on the idea that individuals have certain inherent rights, such as the right to life, liberty, and property, and that the role of government is to protect these rights.
20 Αυγ 2020 · I focus on two forms of liberalism: the “classical liberal” view, which is associated with the social contract doctrines of the Enlightenment, and the “modern liberal” view, which accompanied the rise of the welfare state in the 20th century.
