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Liberalism in the United Kingdom
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Gladstone in 1860. Mr. Peel, then Home Secretary, was entering cautiously into the untrodden and peculiarly Benthamic path of Law Reform. At this period, when Liberalism seemed to be becoming the tone of the time, when improvement of institutions was preached from the highest places, and a complete change of the constitution of Parliament was loudly demanded in the lowest, it is not strange that attention should…
John Stuart Mill, Autobiography
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The liberal professions, when really and not nominally practiced, imply, of course, a still higher degree of instruction; and wherever a sufficient examination, or any serious conditions of education, are required before entering on a profession, its members could be admitted at once to a plurality of votes. The same rule might be applied to graduates of universities; and even to those who bring satisfactory…
John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government
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Full education comes only when there is a responsible share on the part of each person, in proportion to capacity, in shaping the aims and policies of the social groups to which he belongs. This fact fixes the significance of democracy. It cannot be conceived as a sectarian or racial thing nor as a consecration of some form of government which has already attained constitutional sanction.
John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy
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Philosophers who discussed Liberalism in the United Kingdom
Related ideas
- Edmund Burke
- Friedrich Hayek
- Free market
- John Stuart Mill
- Isaiah Berlin
- John Locke
- National Health Service
- Laissez-faire
- Karl Popper
- John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
- James Mill
- Adam Smith
- The Observer
- Labour Party (UK)
- Liberalism
- Fabian Society
- Milton Friedman
- Margaret Thatcher
- Richard Price
- T. H. Green
- Welfare state
- Economic liberalism
- Welfare spending
- Herbert Spencer
Place in the tradition
Part of Liberalism.
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