Social liberalism

Frontline’s Climate of Doubt was a compelling film showing how climate change has become more of a political issue than an environmental one. The film followed correspondent John Hockenberry around the United States as he interviewed several individuals that included scientific specialist, conservative republicans and liberal democrats who may or may not have been holding a position in office at that point in time. He asked simplistic questions surrounding the issue of climate change that could…

and individual welfare. Conservatism was born in the turn of the 18th century. It was a response and an opposite of liberalism. Conservatism back then was supported by the wealthy and well off, such as the king, nobility and church. Conservatives wanted a strong leader instead of democracy. Liberalism was born in the 18th century. It is the opposite of conservatism. When liberalism was born, most of the liberalists were middle class. Liberals supported the ideas of enlightenment, as you can…

In his Very Short Introduction Book on liberalism, Michael Freeden argues that whilst there is not one single definition of liberalism, historically, one ‘layer’ of liberalism was concerned with ‘protecting individual rights’ . This, combined with the belief in a pluralism of behaviours that arises as a result of tolerance, is at the heart of Mill’s belief…

achievements of liberals and nationalists were not maintained for long period of time, they were successful since they gained vast support from the middle class, laid foundations of the February Revolution, and initiated the unification of Italy. Liberalism and nationalism won hearts of the middle class, since people yearned for a change from their miserable living conditions. Middle class Europeans were suffering from poverty, and they blamed it on the government for excessively interfering…

Susan Okin is a feminist philosopher and the author of Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women. Okin’s condemnation of immigrant multiculturalism conveys an extreme form of liberal intolerance shared by liberal feminists alike. Despite raising some valid issues of inequality amongst immigrant societies, Okin’s argument is based on the worst of immigrant culture constructing a misleading narrative about multiculturalism. Here I will analyse Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women to support my argument that…

political repression was occurring and they started speaking against it. The others were the rise of nationalism and the hardships the working class were experiencing in the 1840’s. Different political views, such as nationalism, socialism and liberalism affected the progress and ultimately lead to their failure. Although most revolutions failed…

rights movement is rising to the surface of media and nation news. These ideals along with how humans should live together have been a hot topic in social issues.…

ideologies such as liberalism, social democracy, communism, and socialism, have changed the ways and cultures of people in western countries and how they view the world today. It is true in his argument that people of different civilizations are clashing, but it is not only based on solely cultural difference, but ideological differences that were set up in each other’s sphere of the world. The flaw in Fukuyama’s argument lays in the egoism that western ideologies, such as liberalism and…

Since the 1930’s, Modern Liberalism, exemplified in FDR’s New Deal, has brought about great change to the United States through student activism and supreme court rulings. However the conservative backlash that was sparked in 1970’s that continues to this day can be famously summed up with the words of Ronald Reagan “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party; it left me.” As Conservatives grew more hesitant of presidential leadership in a political system that had grown vastly, Liberals had become…

in political discourse, something that was rare outside of the Monarch’s court. As ideas of liberalism, an ideology with a focus on individual human rights began to surface, conservatives with the desire to maintain the Ancien Regime retorted with anti-nationalistic sentiment. In his speech “What is revolution?”, delivered in 1852, conservative Friedrich Julius Stahl denounces the revolution, liberalism and nationalism. In his rhetoric, he warns that by placing humankind's rights and benefit…