Ideologies and ideas - Liberalism
Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy that treats freedom as its most important value. It emphasizes individualism, tolerance, and places the rights of the individual above the interests of the group. The ideas on which it is based is private property, voluntary relationship. Liberalism harmonizes with the ideas of capitalism and the free market. In the political dimension, it supports democracy, pluralism and the secular nature of the state. It arose as one of the ideas of enlightenment in opposition to traditional, hierarchical feudalism. John Locke and Adam Smith were among the main founders of liberalism. Locke described the idea of a social contract stipulating that government could only be exercised with the consent of society. John Locke postulated that every person has the right to life, property and freedom, while claiming that religion is a personal matter. He also formalized the idea of separating church and state. Liberalism has many varieties, for example, social liberalism, which is promoted by social-democratic circles and classical liberalism.
Your sources are Polish, yet you use words like 'stipulating', which you certainly haven't seen in our class. What is the REAL source of this text?
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