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Liberalism — • A free way of thinking and acting in private and public life Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Liberalism Liberalism † … Catholic encyclopedia
Liberalism — Liberalism was the hegemonic ideology of the Anglo Saxon powers during the nineteenth century. Although not uncontested, it was the ideology that was able to establish the terms in which other contemporary ideologies from John Calhoun’s pseudo … Encyclopedia of the Age of Imperialism, 1800–1914
liberalism — LIBERALÍSM s.n. 1. Doctrină care, opusă socialismului şi dirijismului, proclamă principiul nonintervenţiei statului în economie, în relaţiile economice existente între indivizi, grupuri sociale sau naţiuni; promovează ideea libertăţii economice,… … Dicționar Român
Liberalism — Lib er*al*ism ( [i^]z m), n. [Cf. F. lib[ e]ralisme.] Liberal principles; the principles and methods of the liberals in politics or religion; specifically, the principles of the Liberal party. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
liberalism — 1819, from LIBERAL (Cf. liberal) + ISM (Cf. ism) … Etymology dictionary
liberalism — [lib′ər əliz΄əm, lib′rəliz΄əm] n. the quality or state of being liberal; specif., a) a political philosophy advocating personal freedom for the individual, democratic forms of government, gradual reform in political and social institutions, etc.… … English World dictionary
Liberalism — This article discusses the ideology of liberalism. Local differences in its meaning are listed in Liberalism worldwide. For other uses, see Liberal (disambiguation) … Wikipedia
liberalism — liberalist, n., adj. liberalistic, adj. /lib euhr euh liz euhm, lib reuh /, n. 1. the quality or state of being liberal, as in behavior or attitude. 2. a political or social philosophy advocating the freedom of the individual, parliamentary… … Universalium
LIBERALISM — Introduction Liberalism is an ideological and socio political movement uniting the adherents of representative government and freedom of the individual in politics with freedom of enterprise in economics. It emerged in Western Europe in the age … Encyclopedia of Judaism
liberalism — The liberalism currently active in the Chinese intellectual arena was embryonic in the late 1970s, intertwined with democratic and populist appeals. As it rapidly developed in the early 1990s in parallel with the country’s accelerating… … Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture
