WorksheetsLiberalism - Core Principles
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
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 (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
A society organised on the basis that success is based on ability and hard work is....
A fair society
A just society
A meritocracy
An equal justice society
Classical liberals believe that individuals with different talents should be rewarded differently
True
False
Which early feminist liberal thinker argued that women were no less rational beings than men, and were entitled to the same rights?
Sheila Rowbotham
Deborah Frances-Wright
Betty Friedan
Mary Wollstonecraft
An unofficial agreement shared by everyone in a society in which they give up some freedom in return for security is the....
Liberal Democracy
Social Justice state
Social Contract
Citizens' agreement
Who argued that people must freely give their consent to be governed?
John Stuart Mill
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
John Rawls
