POL101Y1 Lecture 7: pol101_liberalism
7 Feb 2017
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But non-liberals who did not consider themselves totalitarians opposed this strategy (e. g. social-democrats) (292: one defining feature, whatever liberalism involves, it certainly includes toleration and an antipathy to closing ranks around any system of beliefs (292). How does the liberty of a whole nation relate to the liberty of its members? and other such questions (293). It is not necessarily a democratic doctrine, for there is nothing in the bare idea of majority rule to show that majorities will always respect the rights of property or maintain the rule of law (293). Classical liberals are not unanimous about the relationship between minimal government and the cultural and moral order, and this is perhaps the most important point about their moral views. Unlike modern" liberals, they do not display any particular attachment to the ideal of moral and cultural progress . In fact, some of them thought that liberalism required cultural conservatism or religious sentiment (294).
