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24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / e. Liberal community

[liberal attitude to groups, cultures and nations]

10 ideas
We aim to understand the best possible community for free people [Aristotle]
All talk of the progress of a nation must reduce to the progress of its individual members [Green,TH]
Modern liberals see a community as simply a society which respects freedom and equality [Kymlicka]
Liberals must avoid an official culture, as well as an official religion [Kymlicka]
Liberals need more than freedom; they must build a nation, through a language and institutions [Kymlicka]
Liberals are not too individualistic, because people recognise and value social relations [Kymlicka]
Liberal Nationalism encourages the promotion of nationalistic values [Shorten]
Liberals promote community and well-being - because all good societies need them [Charvet]
Liberal community is not blood ties or tradition, but shared choices, and sympathy for the losers [Gopnik]
Liberal community includes flight from the family, into energetic reforming groups [Gopnik]