Uniquely, sovereignty to a state is as how personal liberty is connected to an individual. Liberals tend to think about freedom as being a product from the rule of law, countering the beliefs of the conservatives. According to liberals, people have autonomous beliefs and identities, seeking out to form private groups and organizations to achieve their own personal goals and interests. (Moravcsik) Philosophically thinking about government in terms of liberalism derives from the sophist view of government: me, I, and get ahead. Liberals tend to like fast-paced …show more content…
Plato believed that there were two worlds: the visual world that we see and the “becoming” world, defined as the “world of ideas” (inters.org). In an address from the Earl of Birkenhead from the University of Glasgow, he defines political idealism as “the spirit which impels an individual or a group of individuals to a loftier standard of conduct than that which ordinarily prevails around them or him” (Birkenhead, 1) An idealist is someone who tries to achieve a highly set goal that other citizens of equal moral judgement seem to think of it as