Japan's transformation from militarist empire to pacifist democracy still ranks as one of liberalism's greatest success.

The future of liberalism https://t.co/c7GxNEzbIS ティモシー・ガートン・アッシュの記事。近年のリベラリズム批判に答えて、共同体とアイデンティティ、平等と連帯を重視する新しいリベラリズムを提唱している。

— mozu (@mozumozumozu) January 3, 2021

 

All share a core commitment to individual liberty. (Only in the weird semantic universe of contemporary American politics could it appear possible to separate liberalism from liberty.) Beyond this, as John Gray has argued, liberalism includes elements of individualism, meliorism, egalitarianism and universalism.

Definition of meliorism

: the belief that the world tends to improve and that humans can aid its betterment

へええ。

リベラル陣営はやばいですな。