Liberalism - Hobhouse, L. T.
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In Liberalism, L. T. Hobhouse explains the philosophy of what he calls ¿liberal socialism.¿ Liberalism, as Hobhouse defines it, is the freedom from coercion. Crucially, this means freedom not only from government coercion, but from all forms of coercion, including economic coercion. It¿s important that everyone is free to grow and develop their own individuality within society, but the government has the ultimate responsibility to ensure that one individual¿s freedom is not used to limit the freedom of another. The socialist aspect of the philosophy is the belief that people are not purely…mehr

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In Liberalism, L. T. Hobhouse explains the philosophy of what he calls ¿liberal socialism.¿ Liberalism, as Hobhouse defines it, is the freedom from coercion. Crucially, this means freedom not only from government coercion, but from all forms of coercion, including economic coercion. It¿s important that everyone is free to grow and develop their own individuality within society, but the government has the ultimate responsibility to ensure that one individual¿s freedom is not used to limit the freedom of another. The socialist aspect of the philosophy is the belief that people are not purely self-serving and are capable of voluntarily exercising restraint when needed in order to help society flourish. Viewed through this lens, liberty and equality are not in competition, but rather go hand in hand. In a liberal socialist society, ¿any common life based on the avoidable suffering even of one of those who partake in it is a life not of harmony, but of discord.¿ Tracing the history of the idea of liberalism, from pre-liberal societies, to the philosophies forged in the French and American revolutions, to the concept of socialism expounded by John Stuart Mill, Hobhouse defends the progress of liberalism, while asking what the future of liberalism should look like.
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Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, FBA (8 September 1864 ¿ 21 June 1929) was an English liberal political theorist and sociologist, who has been considered one of the leading and earliest proponents of social liberalism. His works, culminating in his famous book Liberalism (1911), occupy a seminal position within the canon of New Liberalism. He worked both as an academic and a journalist, and played a key role in the establishment of sociology as an academic discipline; in 1907 he shared, with Edward Westermarck, the distinction of being the first professor of sociology to be appointed in the United Kingdom, at the University of London. He was also the founder and first editor of The Sociological Review. His sister was Emily Hobhouse, the British welfare activist.