INTRO TO LIBERALISM

Question 1

WHAT IS THE CENTRAL THEME OF LIBERALISM?

Answer 1

INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM
EMPHASISES INHERENT BALUE OT INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS, AUTONOMY AND DIGNITY, ADVOCATUNG FOR A SOCIETY IN WHICH PEOPLE R FREE TO PURSUE THEIR OWN GOALS AND LIVE ACCORDINF TO THEIR VALUES AS LONF AS THEY DON’T INFRINGE RIGHTS OF OTHERS.

Question 2

HOW DID LIBERALISM BEGIN AS AN IDEOLOGY?

Answer 2

STARTED IN OPPOSITION TO FEUDAL SYSTEM AND DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS. AROSE AS A REACTION AGAINST THE ABSOLOUTE MONARCHIES OF EUROPE WHICH CONCENTRATED POWER INTO HANDS OF THE KING AND LIMITED FREEDOM OF INDIVIDUALS. LIBERALS CALLED FOR CONSTITUTIONALISM.

Question 3

WHAT R THE 2 MAIN SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT IN LIBERALISM?

Answer 3

CLASSICAL LIBERALISM
MODERN LIBERALISM

Question 4

WHAT IS CLASSICAL LIBERALISM?

Answer 4

SEEKS TO MAXIMISE REALM OF UNCONSTRAINED INDIVIDUAL ACTION VIA MINIMAL STATE INTERVENTION.

Question 5

WHO R KEY THINKERS OF CLASSICAL LIBERALISM?

Answer 5

JOHN LOCKE
ADAM SMITH

Question 6

WHEN DID CLASSICAL LIBERALISM EMERGE?

Answer 6

ENLIGHTENMENT AND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION OPPOSING ABSOLOUTISM AND FEUDAL ECONOMIES.

Question 7

WHAT IS MODERN LIBERALISM?

Answer 7

ACCEPTS THE NEED FOR A GOVT AS A MEANS OF PROMOTIMG INDIVIUDAL DEVELOPMENT

Question 8

HOW DID MODERN LIBERALISM EMERGE?

Answer 8

EMERGED AS A REACTION AGAINST FREE MARKET CAPITALISM, BELIEVING THIS LED TO MANY INDIVIDUALS NOT BEING FRRE