Liberalism and colonialism: a critique of Locke and Mill Bhikhu Parekh Liberalism is both egalitarian and inegalitarian‚ it stresses both the unity of mankind and the hierarchy of cultures‚ it is both tolerant and intolerant‚ peaceful and violent‚ pragmatic and dogmatic‚ skeptical and self-righteous. Bhikhu Parekh examines the writing of John Locke and John Stuart Mill‚ two of greatest liberal philosophers. Locke state that the Indians had cultivated and lived on their land for centuries and
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Liberalism and Freedom Liberalism is a force that has produced change from the birth of this nation to the politics of today. Liberal tenets have been a basis of thought and action in American politics since well before the signing of the Constitution. Certainly‚ liberalism has had to transform in order to remain a legitimate force throughout the years. When considering this transformation‚ one may ask whether or not the ideas and goals of classical liberalism have been lost in the conversion
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In the late 18th and 19th centuries there where two ideologies that was fueling the revolutions during this time. These two ideologies are liberalism and nationalism. Liberalism is a belief in gradual social progress by changing laws‚ rather than by revolution. It is also sated to be the belief that people should have a lot of political and individual freedom. Nationalism is the desire for political independence of people who feel they are historically or culturally a separate group within a country
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LIBERALISM Varieties of Liberalism: Liberal thinking on international relations can be dimly perceived in the various plans for peace articulated by philisophers from the sixteenth century onwards.Such thinkers rejected the idea that conflict was a natural condition for relations between states‚one which could only be tamed by the careful management of power through balance of power policies and the construction of alliances against the state which threatened international order.In 1517 Erasmus
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HEAD: RESISTANCE TO LIBERALISM The Justification of Resisting Liberalism Liberalism‚ in general‚ was an ideological movement that emerged out of the ideas of the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution in the early 19th century. It embraced the ideas of individualism which were established in the Renaissance and Reformation era. The Renaissance period sparked a belief in the importance of the individual in society. It helped promote the beliefs of classical liberalism which gradually
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Kyle Williams 05/30/2010 Composition II Thomas Zimmerman liberalism: the quality or state of being liberal‚ as in behavior or attitude As the non-committal dictionary.com definition above suggests‚ the term “liberalism” is an elusive term to define. Whose faces are attached to the term? John F. Kennedy? Franklin D. Roosevelt? Barrack H. Obama? Does it evoke thoughts of the New Deal‚ Civil Rights‚ and Environmentalism? Or is it to be associated with James and John Stuart Mill‚ David Ricardo
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Liberalisms generally subscribe to an ideological platform that the individual is sovereign as John Stuart Mill describes it‚ and the rights of the individual are infinitely more important than the rights of the government. The debate with liberalisms seems to arise from the fact that it does not pay particular attention to the role the individual plays as a member of society a society that cannot function without unity‚ self-preservation‚ and general identification by those members of their responsibility
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their inherently good instincts; economic freedom provided individuals with the protection of rights and promoted the ideology that Mill stood for most‚ Utilitarianism which highly influenced classical liberalism. The philosophy of John Stuart Mill has influenced mankind and classical liberalism throughout history. John Stuart Mill‚ a philosopher in the 1800s‚ was an atheist‚ which made an impact on his belief of the role of man. His belief system came from his father James Mill and his father’s
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departure from the four pillars of the KWS during the neoliberal globalization era‚ through privatization of former crown (or state-owned) corporations‚ demonstrated a commitment of the neoliberal globalization era to classical liberalism and the KWS era to reform liberalism. One state-minimizing initiative the government of Canada engaged in during the time of the neoliberal globalization era was privatization and deregulation of former crown corporations. For example‚ under leadership of the Tories
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first source is an excerpt taken from Freedom and the Welfare State. The views in the excerpt are supportive of left wing ideologies such as the welfare state‚ and are in favour of social programs. However‚ the source is not a complete rejection of liberalism since it maintains right wing ideologies such as capitalism and self interest. The source suggests that in order for society to thrive we must allow individuals to pursue their interest by granting government intervention in society to create a
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