Open AccessClassical Liberalism and its Limits
Author(s) -
Golam Azam
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
philosophy and progress
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2305-6851
pISSN - 1607-2278
DOI - 10.3329/pp.v55i1-2.26389
Subject(s) - liberalism , dignity , plural , principal (computer security) , political science , classical liberalism , sociology , law and economics , law , environmental ethics , epistemology , philosophy , politics , linguistics , computer science , operating system
It is widely considered that minorities rights and dignity are protected in liberal societies particularly in western liberal countries up to a level humanly possible. However, in this article I show that its not as much heroic a theory as we conceive specifically when the liberal society is committed to accommodate plurality of ideas and lifestyles. After briefly explaining principal tenets of classical liberalism I claim that some fundamental weakness of the theory makes it untenable in liberal plural society let alone non-western society of diversityPhilosophy and Progress, Vol#55-56; No#1-2; Jan-Dec 2014