Description
essay 4000 words + quotes and references
Unformatted Attachment Preview
Purchase answer to see full attachment
Explanation & Answer
Attached.
Student’s Name, Student’s No.1
Are Current Liberal Democracies Compatible with the Friedrich Von Hayek’s Ideals of Liberty?
Name of the Class
Professor Name
Name of the School
City or State
Date
Student’s Name, Student’s No.2
Liberalism
Introduction
Liberalism is worldview founded on ideas of democracy and equality. Liberalism varies
widely depending on different political philosopher understanding but most of the times they
support the freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, free markets, civil
rights, democratic societies, secular governments, gender equality, international cooperation and
political freedom too. Through liberalism, philosophers rejected ancient ways of social and
political normality of hereditary privilege, state religion, absolute monarchy and the divine rights
of king ruling. John Locke in the 17th century argued that each person has a right to express
themselves, right to life, liberty, own property and they should enjoy each and every benefit
accrued from the government to its people without prejudice. The government should never
violate the right of life to any citizen basing it on a social contract. From hi context, he tried to
prove a point that liberal hates the idea of traditional conservatism and was willing to replace the
absolutism in each and every government with the representative democracy. There was great
and famous revolutionary like the glorious revolution, American Revolution, and the French
revolution. These revolutionaries used liberal philosophies to justify the armed overthrow of
what they saw and interpreted and tyrannical rule. But in actual sense, liberalism started to
spread after the French Revolution. By the end of 19th century, there were many liberal
governments established among many nations like the Europe, South America, and North
America. Although liberalism was growing, it also faced major challenges like fascism and
communism. During the 20th century, liberals won big even in the world wars which occurred in
two phases (Riker, W.H., 1982)
Student’s Name, Student’s No.3
Social liberalism became well established in the Europe regions and North America
region. Social liberalism became a key component for the growth of the welfare state and as it
can be demonstrated in the current world the liberal parties continue to be influential, powerful
throughout the world among countries. John Locke’s ideas were faced with huge challenges over
in the 17th century. This was because it was the radical era in the western philosophy during the
ancient Greek. During the English Parliament and King Charles 1 ruling, there were civil wars. It
was around 1640s and there were political and financial disputes between the two. This led to the
execution of Charles hence lading to the establishment of Commonwealth of England. After this,
there were the Levellers who were an apolitical radical movement which they had manifested
arguments like, “Agreement of the People”. This meant that they wanted to end the suffering
they received from the government through religious persecutions, inequality before the law,
threatening and other torture they were subjected to. John Locke faced challenges in this trying
era as he believed that absolute monarchy was great political evil in Britain and also his major
work where it's discoursed concern to the government urged that the subjects of the monarch
were being entitled by the right to share in the government through advice and counsel (Ronald,
D., 1978)
These ideas were first unified by John Locke as he is referred to as the father of modern
liberalism. During his error, he influenced two treaties namely the Foundational text of liberal
ideology which outlined the major ideas that he had. Through this treaty, he insisted that a lawful
government should not have extra powers on the basis that there would be a point break from the
previous governance theories. John Locke also influenced the basis of religious toleration,
separation of church and state through the influence of John Milton. John Milton was great and
renders less fighter of freedom in all of its forms. Milton argued that disestablishment as the only
Student’s Name, Student’s No.4
effective way in order for everyone to achieve toleration. Liberalism came in different forms in
different nations. In this context, we will first discuss the earliest lead in the liberalism revolution
across the world (Lowi, T. J. 1979)
Glorious Revolution
These liberal ideas led to the increased culmination of the Glorious Revolution in
England at about 1688 in the 17th century. His r...
Review
Review
