Questions tagged [liberalism]
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How can political philosophy and moral philosophy differ in the context of moral limits on the market?
When I ask this question, I'm specifically referencing ideas posited by theorists like Michael Sandel (The Tanner Lectures - What Money Can't Buy), Elizabeth Anderson (The Ethical Limitations of the Market / Is Women's Labor a Commodity?), Margaret…
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What is the difference between "Continental liberalism", "English liberalism", and "Old Whiggism"?
In an essay entitled "Why I am not a Conservative", Hayek distances himself from both "Continental liberalism" and "English liberalism", while calling himself an "Old Whig":
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though I have all my life described…
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Harm Principle and Duty to Rescue - Which "baseline" should an action be compared against when assessing harm?
Preface
("What isn't my question")
As prominently articulated by Mill, liberalism (and the harm principle) asserts that it is always bad for aggregate utility to coercively interfere in people's voluntary, self-regarding actions. As Mill did not…
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Who originally made a coherent argument that government is inevitable because in "anarchy" a government would come about anyway?
There is a generally known argument, which is that if there is no central authority that maintains a preponderance of violence, then there would be a kind of power vacuum, and some group would fill that power vacuum and become the new central…
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Who Are the Most Prominent Modern Socialist Thinkers?
Who Are The Ten Most Prominent Modern Socialist Thinkers? (Big Tent: Social Democrats, Socialists, Communists, etc. are all acceptable).
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How Humanism, the philosophy of the Enlightenment, and classical liberalism are related?
How Humanism (as the philosophical movement of the Renaissance historical period), the philosophy of the Enlightenment, and classical liberalism are related?
I have some difficulties distinguishing them from one another, since they share many of…
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Why is liberalism sometimes portrayed as an enemy to socialism?
Why is liberalism sometimes portrayed as an enemy to socialism?
Without specifying particular strains of liberalism or socialism.
But one can discover references, where liberalism is seen almost opposed to socialism. I find it a bit of an odd…
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Relation of dialectics, as of Hegel and Marx, toward Enlightenment liberalism
I wish to understand how Hegelian dialectics, further carried, through Marxism, from an idealist to materialist orientation, positions itself with respect to the Enlightenment and liberalism.
It is clear that dialectic methods, particularly the…
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Why can community benefit if its individuals be free to act selfishly?
I never studied philosophy. Can someone kindly explain like I'm 5 the emboldened sentences below? What does "the defendant may benefit from considerations such as the effect on the community if everyone were prevented from behaving as did she"…
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How does Charles Taylor’s “politics of recognition” differ from the traditional liberal universalist conception of equal respect and recognition?
Any examples of how these two different approaches might lead to different policy recommendations ?
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Gun control and classical liberalism
Is gun control consistent with classical liberalism? Can a classical liberal case be made for restricting this liberty?
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Justifying the Principle of Equality at Birth: Secular Foundations and Philosophical Perspectives
John Locke argued that all men are born equal with christian belief. how can liberal atheists prove men are born equal?
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What is the relationship (if any) between Great-Britain classical liberalism and the Renaissance?
What is the relationship (if any) between Great-Britain classical liberalism and the Renaissance?
By Great-Britain classical liberalism I am referring to authors such as Adam Smith, John Locke, David Hume, Adam Ferguson, etc.
They enhanced the…
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Nietzsche and classical liberalism
Nietzsche was a right-leaning anarchist, a "rebel aristocrat" (Domenico Losurdo).
He was vividly against democracy, socialism, and equality.
He criticized John Stuart Mill, rejecting his Utilitarianism and his "harm principle" (cf. Russell's History…
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Dialectics and postmodernism as competing attacks on liberalism
I recently posted an inquiry over the attitude of Hegelian and Marxist dialectics toward Enlightenment liberalism.
A comment mentioned postmodernism as an example of a tradition more plainly antagonistic, compared to Marxism, toward liberalism and…
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