Key Thinkers, key areas of discussion and key definitions

Question 1

Who are the main key thinkers of Liberalism?

Answer 1

-John Locke
-Mary Wollstonecraft
-John Stuart Mills
-Betty Freidan
-John Rawls

Question 2

What are the main areas of discussion regarding liberalism?

Answer 2

1. Individualism
2. Rationalism
3. Freedom
4. Equality and social justice
5. The state
6. Liberal Democracy
7. The economy
8. Human nature
9. Society.
10. Natural Rights

Question 3

What is meant by individualism?

Answer 3

-being independently self reliant

Question 4

What is meant by rationalism?

Answer 4

-Humans are rational creatures, capable of reason and logic.

Question 5

What is meant by freedom?

Answer 5

-The power to act, speak, or think as one wants without hinderance.

Question 5

What is meant by equality and social justice?

Answer 5

-The aspriation of fairness across society, acess to healthcare, equal pay, housing, employment opportunites and criminal justice.

Question 6

What is meant by the state?

Answer 6

-A political unit with soverignty over a particular territory

Question 7

What is meant by natural rights?

Answer 7

-universal, fundamental and inalienable (and cannot be replaced by human laws).

Question 8

What is meant by the economy?

Answer 8

-the process or system by which goods and services are produced, sold, and bought in a country or region

Question 9

What is meant by human nature?

Answer 9

-general psychological characteristics, feelings, and behavioural traits of humankind, regarded as shared by all humans.

Question 10

What is meant by society?

Answer 10

-A group of people who live in a definable community and share the same culture.