Publication details
Svoboda sobectví zbavená
| Title in English | Liberty without Egoism |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Motus in verbo : vedecký časopis mladej generácie |
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| Citation | |
| Web | http://www.motus.umb.sk/aktualne-cislo |
| Field | Philosophy and religion |
| Keywords | Liberty; Equality; Radicalism; Liberalism; Citizen; Society |
| Description | The European politicians from Central Europe use a very strange definition of liberalism. This strange definition leaves out the idea of equal opportunities – one of the two liberal principles. This omission is one of the results brought by the radical liberalism. Radical liberals protect liberty so strongly that they refuse any equality. They are afraid of the propensity to the totalitarianism so they refuse almost all state interventions. Radical liberals forget that an absolute refusing of the equality leads to breaking of one of the liberal principles. Liberty without equal opportunity leads to the same illiberal situation as equality without individual liberty. Both of the liberal principles must be preserved if we want to live in a liberal society. Contemporary liberals should find a solution to unite the liberal principles. |
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