Portal:Liberalism - Wikipedia Portal:Liberalism From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Portal maintenance status: (June 2018) This portal's subpages should be checked. Subpages that are no longer needed should be reported here. Please take care when editing, especially if using automated editing software. Learn how to update the maintenance information here. Wikipedia's portal for exploring content related to Liberalism Portal topics Activities Culture Geography Health History Mathematics Nature People Philosophy Religion Society Technology Random portal The Liberalism portal Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on liberty, consent of the governed and equality before the law. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but they generally support free markets, free trade, limited government, individual rights (including civil rights and human rights), capitalism, democracy, secularism, gender equality, racial equality, internationalism, freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of religion. Yellow is the political colour most commonly associated with liberalism. Liberalism became a distinct movement in the Age of Enlightenment, when it became popular among Western philosophers and economists. Liberalism sought to replace the norms of hereditary privilege, state religion, absolute monarchy, the divine right of kings and traditional conservatism with representative democracy and the rule of law. Liberals also ended mercantilist policies, royal monopolies and other barriers to trade, instead promoting free trade and free markets. Philosopher John Locke is often credited with founding liberalism as a distinct tradition, based on the social contract, arguing that each man has a natural right to life, liberty and property and governments must not violate these rights. While the British liberal tradition has emphasized expanding democracy, French liberalism has emphasized rejecting authoritarianism and is linked to nation-building. (Full article...) Read more... Refresh with new selections below (purge) Selected article - show another 5 May 1789 opening of the Estates General of 1789 in Versailles Left-wing politics supports social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy. Left-wing politics typically involves a concern for those in society whom its adherents perceive as disadvantaged relative to others as well as a belief that there are unjustified inequalities that need to be reduced or abolished. According to emeritus professor of economics Barry Clark, left-wing supporters "claim that human development flourishes when individuals engage in cooperative, mutually respectful relations that can thrive only when excessive differences in status, power, and wealth are eliminated." Within the left–right political spectrum, Left and Right were coined during the French Revolution, referring to the seating arrangement in the French Estates General. Those who sat on the left generally opposed the Ancien Régime and the Bourbon monarchy and supported the French Revolution, the creation of a democratic republic and the secularisation of society while those on the right were supportive of the traditional institutions of the Old Regime. Usage of the term Left became more prominent after the restoration of the French monarchy in 1815, when it was applied to the Independents. The word wing was first appended to Left and Right in the late 19th century, usually with disparaging intent, and left-wing was applied to those who were unorthodox in their religious or political views. (Full article...) List of selected articles Universal Declaration of Human Rights Classical liberalism Social liberalism Neoliberalism Liberal Movement (Australia) Modern liberalism in the United States Progressivism in the United States Civil rights movement Fair Deal Liberal Republican Party (United States) New Deal New Democrats Charles Sumner Radical Republicans Progressive Era The Demands of Liberal Education Great Society Square Deal Right-libertarianism The New Freedom Libertarianism New Frontier List of liberal theorists Glorious Revolution Civil liberties Liberty Judicial independence Universal suffrage Suffrage Women's suffrage History of liberalism National Liberal Party-Brătianu Liberal Party of Canada National Peasants' Party People's Party for Freedom and Democracy Social democracy Social justice Orange Revolution Partnership for Civil Justice Fund Libertarian Party (United States) Liberal Democrats (UK) Liberal Revolution of 1820 Liberal welfare reforms Liberal Alliance (Denmark) Boston Tea Party Storming of the Bastille Liberal Party (UK) Selected biography - show another John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 7 May 1873), usually cited as J. S. Mill, was an English philosopher, political economist, and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of classical liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory, political theory, and political economy. Dubbed "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century", he conceived of liberty as justifying the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state and social control. Mill was a proponent of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed by his predecessor Jeremy Bentham. He contributed to the investigation of scientific methodology, though his knowledge of the topic was based on the writings of others, notably William Whewell, John Herschel, and Auguste Comte, and research carried out for Mill by Alexander Bain. He engaged in written debate with Whewell. (Full article...) List of selected biographies John Locke T. H. Green John Dewey Norberto Bobbio John Rawls Isaiah Berlin David Lloyd George Jeremy Bentham Selected quote “ The ‘positive’ sense of the word ‘liberty’ derives from the wish on the part of the individual to be his own master. I wish my life and decisions to depend on myself, not on external forces of whatever kind. I wish to be the instrument of my own, not of other men’s, acts of will. I wish to be a subject, not an object; to be moved by reasons, by conscious purposes, which are my own, not by causes which affect me, as it were, from outside. I wish to be somebody, not nobody; a doer-deciding, not being decided for, self-directed and not acted upon by external nature or by other men as if I were a thing, or an animal, or a slave incapable of playing a human role, that is, of conceiving goals and policies of my own and realizing them. This is at least part of what I mean when I say that I am rational, and that it is my reason that distinguishes me as a human being from the rest of the world. I wish, above all, to be conscious of myself as a thinking, willing, active being, bearing responsibility for my choices and able to explain them by references to my own ideas and purposes. I feel free to the degree that I believe this to be true, and enslaved to the degree that I am made to realized that it is not. ” — Isaiah Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty, 1958. More selected quotes More... General images The following are images from various liberalism-related articles on Wikipedia. January 1933 color photo of Franklin D. Roosevelt as the Man of the Year of Time As a liberal nationalist, K. J. Ståhlberg (1865–1952), the President of Finland, anchored the state in liberal democracy, guarded the fragile germ of the rule of law, and embarked on internal reforms. Chilean (orange) and average Latin American (blue) rates of growth of GDP (1971–2007). Friedrich Hayek 2017 Russian protests were organized by Russia's liberal opposition Gustave de Molinari John Milton's Areopagitica (1644) argued for the importance of freedom of speech Montesquieu, who argued for the government's separation of powers John Stuart Mill, whose On Liberty greatly influenced the course of 19th century liberalism John Locke, who was the first to develop a liberal philosophy, including the right to private property and the consent of the governed Julius Faucher Madame de Staël John Maynard Keynes, one of the most influential economists of modern times and whose ideas, which are still widely felt, formalized modern liberal economic policy Pamphlet calling for a protest of economic policy in 1983 following the economic crisis Member nations of the International Monetary Fund GDP per capita in Chile and Latin America 1950–2010 (time under Pinochet highlighted) Benjamin Constant, a Franco-Swiss political activist and theorist Execution of José María de Torrijos y Uriarte and his men in 1831 as Spanish King Ferdinand VII took repressive measures against the liberal forces in his country Wealth inequality in the United States increased from 1989 to 2013 Mary Wollstonecraft, widely regarded as the pioneer of liberal feminism Sismondi, who wrote the first critique of the free market from a liberal perspective in 1819 Builders in West Berlin, 1952 The iconic painting Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix, a tableau of the July Revolution in 1830 Ludwig Erhard The Great Depression with its periods of worldwide economic hardship formed the backdrop against which Keynesian Revolution took place (the image is Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother depiction of destitute pea-pickers in California, taken in March 1936) Unemployment in Chile and South America (1980–1990). Thomas Hill Green, an influential liberal philosopher who established in Prolegomena to Ethics (1884) the first major foundations for what later became known as positive liberty and in a few years his ideas became the official policy of the Liberal Party in Britain, precipitating the rise of social liberalism and the modern welfare state The European Union–Mercosur free trade agreement, which would form one of the world's largest free trade areas, has been denounced by environmental activists and indigenous rights campaigners. Raif Badawi, a Saudi Arabian writer and the creator of the website Free Saudi Liberals, who was sentenced to ten years in prison and 1,000 lashes for "insulting Islam" in 2014 United States incarceration rate per 100,000 population, 1925–2013 Per capita income during the Great Depression Subcategories Select [►] to view subcategories ▼ Liberalism ► Liberalism by continent ► Liberalism by country ► Atlantic Revolutions ► Books about liberalism ► Classical liberalism ► Habeas corpus ► Individualism ► Keynesian economics ► LGBT liberalism ► Liberal feminism ► Liberal International ► Liberal socialism ► Libertarianism ► National liberalism ► Liberal organizations ► Liberalism and religion ► Social liberalism ► Spanish confiscation ► Whiggism ► Liberalism stubs Related portals Anarchism Capitalism Communism Conservatism Libertarianism Politics Socialism Organized Labour WikiProjects Liberalism task force WikiProject Human Rights WikiProject Philosophy WikiProject LGBT What are WikiProjects? 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