liberalism
- noun
- /ˈlɪbərəlɪzəm/
- Liberalism promotes the idea that every person should have the freedom to express their liberalism.
- classical liberalism
- liberalism and socialism
- political liberalism
And the rules of just conduct are liberalism's response to that need.
- And the rules of just conduct are liberalism's response to that need.
- Dung's goal, to be clear, was economic liberalism, not social liberalism.
- Secondly, that liberalism doesn't have the answer to populism.
- Well, I think libertarianism is set within liberalism, classical liberalism.
- But he rejects those grand narratives about the world, including both liberalism and Marxism.
- Can you just give a overview of the history of the realism versus liberalism debate as worldviews?
- You had communism and you had liberalism.
- Well, liberalism is often quite individualistic.
- Like Enlightenment style, like classic liberalism.
- What is it that you get from utilitarian Christianity in opposition to secular liberalism?
- And that's the, and liberalism was the antithesis to that.
- Somebody said to me the other day, liberalism has failed.
- And what he basically says is that so first, liberalism has developed.
Examples
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Liberalism really is about the individual, and it's about live and let live.
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If civility supplies the spirit of liberalism, rights supply the letter.
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Somebody said to me the other day, liberalism has failed.
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But there is a bottom line responsibility that liberalism puts on each individual.
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So this sort of alliance against Western liberalism is not hard to imagine.
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There are clearly many varieties of liberalism, but central to them all are two claims.
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I will not discuss the tie between liberalism and pluralism in this paper.
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If this is correct, then it only shows the extent to which liberalism is misunderstood and its message undigested.
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There was little by way of liberalism to resist the rise of rightist dictatorship.
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The postwar international environment was characterized by a liberalism conducive to the expansion of international trade.
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Synonyms
An attitude that supports new ideas and freedom for people in society
Supporting new ideas and personal freedom
Antonyms
Compounds
How Liberal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word liberalism comes from the Latin root liber meaning 'free' and shares this root with the familiar word liberty. So, liberalism is the idea of giving people personal freedom, equal rights, and less strict government control.