Strengthening of Liberal Ideas in Europe and Overseas in the Age of Enlightenment

Journal Title: ИДЕИ. ФИЛОСОФСКО СПИСАНИЕ - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 2

Abstract

The article considers the process of formation of the philosophical foundations of liberal doctrine in the Age of Enlightenment. The idea that educatory remedy to reason is at the core of the nascent liberal doctrine in the century between English and French bourgeois revolution is advocated. The Enlightenment concepts for the autonomy of the individual and individual rights, social contract and the state, the natural state and the natural man as subject of liberty are analyzed – i.e. all those phenomenon that became the basic positions of liberalism that was forming in the Age of Enlightenment. The conceptual differences and national characteristics of classical liberalism in England, France, Germany and America are highlighted

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Nikolay Aleksandrov

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  • EP ID EP521366
  • DOI 10.34017/1313-9703-2018-2(12)-43-49
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Nikolay Aleksandrov (2018). Strengthening of Liberal Ideas in Europe and Overseas in the Age of Enlightenment. ИДЕИ. ФИЛОСОФСКО СПИСАНИЕ, 7(2), 43-49. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-521366