Key Ideas

• Individualism 


  Core belief that individual freedom should take priority over collective interest
• Human beings


  Possessed of rights
• Natural state for human beings


  Freedom
• Equality


  Everyone has equal dignity as a human being
• Freedom of action, thought, expression
• Toleration of others views
• Limited government 


  Based upon consent
• Free markets


  Laissez faire capitalism
• Democracy and constitutional government
• Where did it come from

  Enlightenment in 18th century
• Harm to others principle


  John Stuart Mill, it limits individual freedom
• Classical Liberalism


  Negative freedom = your rights define what others cannot do to you
• Social liberalism 


  Positive freedom
• Meritocracy

  Everyone has the same rights , people should be given equal opportunity to demonstrate its own worth
• Natural rights


  Human beings are born with rights.
• Civil rights


  Rights are based in law because individuals participate in a society