LIB society

• Liberals value tolerance and say the interests of minorities must be accomodated and protected
• Liberals believe in meritocracy and cultural, economic and intellectual progress
• In a natural society, humans obey natural laws that ensure mutual sympathy and tolerance
• Classical - little stress on socety, individuals have primacy over the idea of a common good
• Classical - Locke said there should be tolerance between alternative political and religious views
• Classical - Locke's social contract
• Classical - Locke said society guarantees natural rights
• Classical - J.S. Mill believed in a limited government and a republic over a popular democracy, at first
• Modern - society is organic, and individuals must control self interest in the interest of societal cohesion
• Modern - Wollstonecraft believed in the social contract and that all should experience equality under the law
• Modern - Rawls' veil of ignorance -> people would choose a society that offered opportunities for the less fortunate to improve their condition
• Modern - Friedan said illiberal attitudes condemned women to underachievment, nurtured through society's culture channels