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liberalism

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Liberalism \Lib"er*al*ism\ (-[i^]z'm), n. [Cf. F. lib['e]ralisme.] Liberal principles; the principles and methods of the liberals in politics or religion; specifically, the principles of the Liberal party.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Liberalism (original German title: Liberalismus ) is an influential book by Austrian School economist and libertarian thinker Ludwig von Mises , containing economic analysis and indicting critique of socialism . It was first published in 1927 by Gustav ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The quality of being liberal. 2 Any political movement founded on the autonomy and personal freedom of the individual, progress and reform, and government by law with the consent of the governed. 3 An economic theory in favour of laissez faire and ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE bourgeois ▪ These unhealthy trends needed to be corrected, he warned, and students firmly guided away from the false ideals of bourgeois liberalism . classical ▪ Yet this wave of social legislation could not easily ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1819, from liberal + -ism .\n

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a political orientation that favors progress and reform an economic theory advocating free competition and a self-regulating market and the gold standard

Usage examples of liberalism.

Lafayette-Constant wing of French liberalism by no means denies the existence of utilitarian themes in their advocacy of human rights.

Its attendant phenomena grow colorless, more forced, and one by one they fade away: Equality, Democracy, Happiness, Instability, Commercialism, High Finance and its power of Money, Class War, Trade as an end in itself, Social Atomism, Parliamentarism, Liberalism, Communism, Materialism, Mass-Propaganda.

Anglicanism resorts to a grand pageant of uniformity, beneath which, however, lurk Anglo-Catholicism, Evangelicism, and Liberalism, by no means uniform in faith.

While most Western intellectuals are still capable of believing in individualism, much of the most discussed thought of the last decade has been leveled, directly and indirecdy, against the once safe pieties of humanistic liberalism.

Eric Stokes has convincingly shown, utilitarianism combined with the legacies of liberalism and evangelicalism as philosophies of British rule in the East stressed the rational importance of a strong executive armed with various legal and penal codes, a system of doctrines on such matters as frontiers and land rents, and everywhere an irreducible supervisory imperial authority.

The only reason they were allowed to go on for so long was that Leiss was a city that prided itself on its liberalism.

For a long time to come we meet with little that goes beyond the conservatism of Hobbes, or the liberalism of Vane, and Harrington, and Milton, and of Lilburne in his saner moments.

He himself proposed that the child should be made a model nursling of the liberalism of a new era.

Free Trade nationalism in power is better than high tariff nationalism, and pacificist party liberalism better than aggressive party patriotism.

Russian liberalism, which had always had a rather valetudinarian existence, rallied its forces and for a few years rivaled socialism in active opposition to the government.

Nor did his sense of multivalent truth and personal liberalism blind him to the indispensable role of conflict in the life of the individual and society.

This total revolution marked the victory of democracy over aristocracy, parliamentarism over the State, mass over quality, Reason over Faith, equality-ideals over organic hierarchy, of Money over Blood, of Liberalism, pluralism, free capitalism, and criticism over the organic forces of Tradition, State and Authority, and in one word, of Civilization over Culture.

When Authority resurges once more against the forces of Rationalism and Economics, it proceeds at once to show that the complex of transcendental ideals with which Liberalism equipped itself is as valid as the Legitimism of the era of Absolute Monarchy, and no more.

My supernaturalism and firm belief in revelation are no less opposed to theological liberalism.

This evolution from socialism to Orthodoxy and national liberalism is typical of a great number of Russian intellectuals between 1900 and 1910.