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Liberalism, Libertarianism and Anarchism

Introduction

Ideology can be referred to as the general comprehensive vision or the way of looking at things in the light of several philosophical tendencies. Political Ideologies can be explained as the set of ethical ideals, doctrines, principles or even symbols of social movement that attempts to explain how a particular society should operate. Hence it offers a number of both cultural and political blue prints for the social order of a community or a state. A political ideology chiefly is concerned with the allocation and the distribution of power and to what ends or extremes that it should be used. Many of the political parties tend to follow a certain set of ideology very closely, whereas the others might take broad inspiration from a group of related ideologies without specifically embracing any one of them. Generally, the political ideologies tends to have two key dimensions; goals i.e how a particular society should operate and methods i.e. finding the most feasible method to attain the ideal set of arrangements. (Watts, Duncan.2002)

Liberalism

Liberalism can be defined as the faith in the importance of an individual's equal rights and liberty. The Liberals tend to promote a wide array of views based on their understanding of these principles. This usually include ideas such as capitalism, liberal democracy, constitutionalism, human rights, freedom to exercise one's own religion and most importantly free and fair conduct of elections. Liberalism is although an unstable achievement but it certainly tends to hold lasting value. This vital piece of heritage can be contributed to both philosophy as well as the European history. Liberalism tends to hold both scope and significance which undoubtedly continues to stimulate the political emancipation both in America and around the world. (Bernstein, Steven, and Louis W. Pauly. 2007)

In the early 1500s, a number of changes occurred globally that ultimately led to the birth of a number of new ideologies. The European's discovery of America the rise of Protestantism, the birth of the free-market economy, and finally the early stages of the scientific revolution eventually altered Europe thus leading to people who began developing different ways of thinking in order to take account of all these changes. (Burchill, Scott. 2001)

One of most significant of these newly emerging ideas was that of liberalism. Liberalism or sometimes even referred to as classical liberalism has its roots in England in the 1600s. It developed when such thinkers as John Locke rethought the relationship between the individual and society. Moreover, during the French Revolution the monarchy and most of the churches were destroyed, along with the traditional laws and habits that once prevailed in different parts of the country. (Burchill, Scott. 2001) The revolutionaries exalted reason, to the point of actually building a temple to it which was ultimately renamed as the Church of Notre Dame in Paris or more popularly known as the Temple of Reason in the year 1793. However, as a result of the French revolution, France was pushed into years of civil war and ...