Liberalism

Question 1

What are some of the
main differences
between feudalism
and capitalism?

Question 2

What were some of
the consequences of
the transition from
feudalism to
capitalism?

Question 3

What was the
Reformation?

Question 4

What were some of
the consequences of
the Reformation?

Question 5

What was the
Enlightenment?

Question 6

How did the
Enlightenment
contribute to the
emergence of new
liberal ideas?

Question 7

Freedom

Question 8

Individualism

Question 9

Rationalism

Question 10

Equality

Question 11

Tolerance

Question 12

Limited
Government

Question 13

Liberal
Democracy

Question 14

How did classical
liberals understand
the idea of ‘freedom’

Question 15

What is John Stuart
Mill’s ‘Harm Principle’?

Question 16

Why did Mill argue
that self and other
regarding actions
should be treated
differently?

Question 17

What are negative
rights?

Question 18

Why did Mill believe
that freedom of
speech was so
important?

Question 19

What is utilitarianism?

Question 20

What is egoistical
individualism?

Question 21

Why are classical
liberals said to have
had an atomistic view
of society?

Question 22

What is a
minimal/night-
watchman state?

Question 23

What is laissez-faire
economics?

Question 24

Why did Adam Smith
believe that, if left
alone, the economy
would be guided by
an ‘invisible hand’?

Question 25

Why did Locke believe that private property was a natural right?

Question 26

What is the difference between equality of outcome and equality of opportunity?

Question 27

Why is formal equality of opportunity?

Question 28

What is a meritocracy?

Question 29

What is social Darwinism?

Question 30

How do modern liberals understand the concept of ‘freedom’?

Question 31

Why is John Stuart Mill regarded as a key bridge between classical and modern liberalism?

Question 32

How is developmental individualism different to egoistical individualism?

Question 33

What criticisms did Thomas Hill Green make of the classical liberal view of freedom?

Question 34

What are positive rights? How are they different to negative rights?

Question 35

Why did modern liberals believe that an enabling state was consistent with core liberal values? Give some examples of ‘enabling’ actions taken by the UK Government.

Question 36

What is Keynesian economics? Why did modern liberals believe that economic management was still consistent with core liberal values?

Question 37

How did modern liberals like Green view society? How do their views compare with classical liberal arguments?

Question 38

What was John Rawls’ ‘original position’? What was the ‘veil of ignorance’?

Question 39

What was the first principle that Rawls argued would be agreed behind the veil of ignorance?

Question 40

What was Rawls’ second principle of justice?

Question 41

How is substantive equality of opportunity different to formal equality of opportunity?

Question 42

What is liberal feminism?

Question 43

What is first wave feminism? What was the legal and social status of women in the C18th and C19th?

Question 44

Why was Mary Wollstonecraft’s call for greater gender equality firmly liberal?

Question 45

What was the Revolution Controversy? How did Wollstonecraft feel about the aristocracy?

Question 46

What brought the first wave of feminism to an end & what triggered the second wave?

Question 47

What did Betty Freidan mean by “the problem with no name” and the “feminine mystique”? How was her criticism of both firmly liberal?

Question 48

In what ways did second wave liberal feminists believe that an enabling state could promote the freedom of women?

Question 49

3 branches of Human nature

Answer 49

-liberalisum - rationalism - tolerance

Question 50

3 branches of society

Answer 50

- individualism - rights and liberties - equality

Question 51

3 branches of the state

Answer 51

- limited government - individualism - liberal democracy

Question 52

The Economy

Answer 52

-Captatalisum -private property - Taxation