Liberalism

Question 1

what are the core values or liberalism?

Answer 1

individualism, freedom, rationalism, limited government, tolerance and equality

Question 2

Individualism

Answer 2

Typically, lives and identities were determined by the social groups to which they belonged: family, village, local community or social class. individualism encourages people to think for themselves and think of themselves in personal terms. As scientific explanations gradually displaced traditional religious theories, society was increasingly understood from the perspective of the human individual. Human beings were thought to possess personal and distinctive qualities: each was of special value.

Question 3

Individualism from Kant.

Answer 3

Kant expressed a similar belief in the dignity and equal worth of human beings in his conception of individuals as ‘ends in themselves’ in his first formulation of the categorical imperative. human beings were to not be treated merely as a means for the achievement of thee ends of others.

Question 4

what is Atomism?

Answer 4

Atomism is a belief that society is made up of a group of self-interested and largely self-sufficient individuals, or atoms, rather than social groups. indivudualism can be equated to atomism the belief that ‘society’ itself does not exist

Question 5

individualism

Answer 5

the belief tin the supreme importance of an individual over any social group or collective body; individuals are central to any political theory or social explanation

Question 6

What is freedom?

Answer 6

a belief in the supreme importance of the individual leads naturally to a commitment to individual freedom. Individual liberty is, for liberals, the supreme political value and the unifying principle within liberal ideology.