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Edexcel Politics A-Level: Liberalism — Flashcards

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What is Liberalism?
Liberalism is seen essentially as a product of The Enlightenment as it recognises that humans are rational creatures capable of understanding the world and making decisions for themselves. The defining feature of liberalism is its belief in individualism and freedom.

There are three content areas:
1. Liberalism: core ideas and principles
2. Differing views and tensions within liberalism
3. Liberal thinkers and their ideas.
 

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Liberalism - Fact file Emerged due to what? Reflection of? Apart of what era where thinkers believed?
Emerged in reaction to monarchies and aristocratic priviledge in early modern world - Reflected views of the educated middle classes - Liberalism was part of the Enlightenment -> 18th century intellectual movement stressing the power of reason and freedom of the individual - Thinkers believed in the abolishment of traditional restrictions placed on the individual by church or gov
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