POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Economic Liberalism, Invisible Hand, Social Progress
10 Jul 2016
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Liberalism has many different meaning, possibly so conflicted as to be meaningless. Nearly everything we have studied to far in the course fits within liberalism- ideas about democracy, the state, justice, equality. Difficult to see because it is so familiar to us- many people think of it as common sense and the right way to look at the world. 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 are not associated with particular political parties- e. g. in. Canada all 5 major federal parties are conservative, ndp, liberal, green and. Bloc can be seen as espousing liberal values. This is also true of both the republicans and the democrats in the u. s and the conservatives, liberal democrats, labor party in the u. k. Enlightenment, reformation, renaissance, rebirth of classical ideals. Social upheaval- famines and plagues, some turned to religion and some became critical of religion.
