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Liberalism

Development Contributions to liberal theory History of classical liberalism

Ideas Political liberalism Economic liberalism Cultural liberalism Political freedom Democratic capitalism Democratic education Free trade Individualism Laissez faire Liberal democracy Liberal neutrality Negative / positive liberty Market economy Open society Popular sovereignty Rights (individual) Seperation of church and state

Schools American liberalism · Anarcho-liberalism Classical liberalism · Conservative liberalism Democratic liberalism · Green liberalism Libertarianism · Market liberalism National liberalism · Neoliberalism Ordoliberalism · Paleoliberalism Radicalism · Social liberalism

Key figures John Locke Adam Smith Thomas Jefferson Thomas Paine David Hume Baron de Montesquieu Immanuel Kant Jeremy Bentham Thomas Malthus David Ricardo John Stuart Mill Thomas Hill Green Alfred Marshall John Maynard Keynes Friedrich von Hayek Milton Friedman · Isaiah Berlin John Rawls · Robert Nozick

Regional variants Liberalism worldwide Liberalism in Europe Liberalism in the United States Liberalism by country

Religious Liberalism Islamic Liberalism Christian Liberalism Jewish Liberalism

Organisations Liberal parties Liberal International International Federation of Liberal Youth (IFLRY) European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR) Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) European Liberal Youth (LYMEC) Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (CALD) Africa Liberal Network (ALN) Liberal Network for Latin America (Relial)

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Cultural liberalism is a liberal view of society that stresses the freedom of individuals from cultural norms. Some cultural liberals believe that society should not impose any specific code of behaviour, and they see themselves as defending the rights of non-conformists to express their own identity however they see fit.

The culture wars in modern American politics are usually drawn between cultural liberals and cultural conservatives. Cultural liberals argue that all religion(s) and forms of worship (or lack thereof) should be tolerated; they are strongly opposed to censorship or any kind of oversight of spoken or written material; they believe that the structure of one's family and the nature of marriage should be left up to individual decision, and they argue that no lifestyle is inherently better than any other.

Cultural liberalism is an element of social liberalism in number of countries. Social liberalism deals broadly with other issues such as health care, economy, etc.

[edit] References

Willard, Charles Arthur. Liberalism and the Problem of Knowledge: A New Rhetoric for Modern Democracy, University of Chicago Press, 1996.

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