Liberalism Key Thinkers
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- Key Thinkers (Liberalism)
- John Locke (1632-1704)
- Limited Government
- a stateless society is one in which we would be devoid of freedom.
- “life, liberty and estate.”
- “where laws do not exist, man has no freedom.”
- Social Contract
- liberal framework centred upon limited government, individual rights and government by consent.
- Limited Government
- Betty Friedan (1921-2006)
- Boundaries placed upon women (particularly mothers and housewives) and identified the multiple frustrations of those who felt trapped by the confines of social expectations.
- Friedan claimed that women were prevented from fulfilling their potential in life
- believed passionately in the emancipation of women from the confines of a patriarchal society.
- John Rawls (1921-2002)
- Society can be said to be fair when we can state that no-one would care what circumstances we would be born into
- Rawls assumed that people would want a fairer society with adequate housing, safe neighbourhoods, a good education system and an unbiased criminal justice system.
- 'Justice as Fairness'
- John Stuart Mill (1806-73)
- Majority opinion can be wrong as the majority holds no true authority and no absolute certainty.
- sovereign entities capable of exercising free will.
- state is only justifying in limiting our actions when those actions impinge upon the freedom of others
- harm principle, free will, utilitarianism, the marketplace of ideas and electoral reform.
- Majority opinion can be wrong as the majority holds no true authority and no absolute certainty.
- harm principle, free will, utilitarianism, the marketplace of ideas and electoral reform.
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97)
- argued that both men and women should be treated equally as rational human beings.
- women were not naturally inferior to men
- may appear to be because they’ve been denied educational opportunities
- “a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle”
- "The personal is the political"
- John Locke (1632-1704)
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