POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Athenian Democracy, Liberal Democracy, Classical Liberalism
4 Dec 2015
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Diverse meanings of liberalism possibly so conflicted as to be meaningless. Nearly everything we"ve studied in the course so far fits within liberalism ideas about democracy, the state, justice, equality, etc. Difficult to see" because it is familiar to us set of assumptions people living in. The meaning of liberal is not exactly the same as liberalism: can denote modern, generous, tolerant, broad-minded, or general (e. g. liberal education) Names of ideologies not associated with particular political parties e. g. in. Canada, all five major federal parties (conservative, ndp, liberal, green, and bloc. Quebecois) can be seen as espousing liberal values. This also true of both the republicans and democrats in the u. s, and the. Conservatives, liberal democrats, and labour party in the u. k. Enlightenment, reformation (challenges to authority of the catholic church) Renaissance (rebirth of interests in classical, athenian democracy, athenian values, change over centuries: challenging the state, the government, argument to use our reason to make.
