Comments on Liberalism

Philosophy and Culture 24 (11):1027-1040 (1997)
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Western liberalism is the most ancient and respectable an ideology. Historically, the greatest price value of liberalism is to remove the external environment on individual unreasonable restraint and restriction, and even to break the concept of destiny, people can change the external environment, and improve the lives of this life. Meanwhile, liberal ideas, but also enrich the philosophy and culture. This article focuses on Western liberalism in the past, present and future, to do a critical analysis, and its meaning with, ideological background, historical foundations, development context, and the achievements and shortcomings of traditional and price value, to review with the applicant on the liberal how lasting and fresh, the future might still be in the mainstream of liberal thought. To date, Western liberalism has been the political and social traditions, they bring the philosophy, but also with the promise of contemporary American philosopher Luo Ershi Rickettsia continue to be extolled with the development of new meaning. Liberalism is the oldest and most respectable ideology in the West. In history, the greatest value of liberalism lies in the freedom of individual from irrational bondage and limitations, and even breaking through the fatalism, to improne the outer environment and the life of this world . At the same time, the ethos of liberalism enriches the implication of philosophy and culture as well. This article is a critical analysis of the past, present, and future liberalism, in the main. Also, the author intends to make a commentary introduction and interpretation to the sucessfully renewal of liberalism from its implication, the background of thought, historical basis, developmental contents, achievements and shortcomings, tradition and values. So far, liberalism has become the tradition of Western political society. And the philosophical doctrines of liberalism have been studied and developed by contemporary American philosophers John Rawls and Robert Nozick, till now.

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