Liberalism
Автор:
L. T. HobhouseЖанр:
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2024-10-24Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
50
Description
In Liberalism, L. T. Hobhouse explains the philosophy of what he calls “liberal socialism.” Liberalism, as Hobhouse defines it, is the freedom from coercion. Crucially, this means freedom not only from government coercion, but from all forms of coercion, including economic coercion. It’s important that everyone is free to grow and develop their own individuality within society, but the government has the ultimate responsibility to ensure that one individual’s freedom is not used to limit the freedom of another.
The socialist aspect of the philosophy is the belief that people are not purely self-serving and are capable of voluntarily exercising restraint when...
