Liberalism - Core Principles

Liberalism was part of which intellectual movement?

• Illumination

• Enlightenment

• Renaissance

• 20th Century Intellectualism

The view that individual freedom is linked to the desire to create a society in which each person can grow and flourish is....

• Egoistical Individualism

• Atomism

• Developmental individualism

• The doctrine of the mean

A willingness to accept values, customs and beliefs with which one disagrees is....

• Very mature

• Permissiveness

• Liberalism

• Tolerance

Freedom from interferences by other people is...

• Negative freedom

• Positive freedom

• Limited government

• Laissez-faire freedom

Having the capacity to act on one's free will and to realise personal potential is..

• Negative Freedom

• Positive Freedom

• Aspirational

• Meritocracy

A state with checks and balances and separation of powers to prevent tyranny is an example of a _____________ Government

Why do Liberals believe that the state is a 'necessary evil'? (choose all that apply)

• Power is corrupting

• The state of nature is nasty, brutish and short

• The state is needed to protect the vulnerable

• To avert disorder

The liberal belief in rationalism is the opposite to the conservative belief in...

• High taxes

• Tradition

• Empiricism

• Human idiocy

The idea that all individuals should have equal chances in life to rise and fall is...

• Equality of outcome

• Equality of opportunity

• Meritcracy

• Formal equality

The belief in rights that all humans have by virtue of being born that cannot be taken away is...

• Foundational Equality

• Equality of Opportunity

• Formal Equality

• Meritocracy