Importance Of Liberalism

Judith Blau and Alberto Moncada stated in – Human Rights: Beyond the liberal

vision – that: “Liberalism is a point of view, a weltanschauung, a consciousness.”

(2005). Libralism is a political view based on emphasis of liberty , personal freedoms,

human rights , respect for minorities and equality of social beings. Liberalism gives

importance to equality which was denied in the past , but the movement that

started during the last quarter of the19th century and the 20th century brought

progressive liberalism that this subject space is not enough to discuss. In this essay,

I will explain how difference-blind liberalism concern the issues of the public policies and

cultural diversity.

“Liberalism

The idea that there is a natural hierarchy related

to human beings and that some people are deserve better treatment than others. In

addition, liberals hold that every human being is of equal moral value and that justice is

a matter of treating every one equally. For example When a traffic light violation,

whether the violator is a man or a woman, he/she will be violated with the same fine

regardless the gender.

“Treating people differently is wrong, and treating groups differently is

discrimination.”(Brown,2008).Libralism lead people to more understanding

and acceptance of eachother through mixed societies and diversified

ethnities by freedom of belief , freedom of speech, freedom of choice, and

free economy and competition.). Discrimination takes place whenever one group of people

is treated differently from another group of people. Discrimination can be unjust and not

unjust, it is unjust when as it discriminates between people on the basis of

considerations that are irrelevant to the situation, but there are some cases in which it

The difference-blind liberal reject that if a law or policy does not have the same

impact on everybody, it is not just. And what is meant is that laws should apply in the

same way. Difference-blind liberal support the claim that it is not unjust to enact laws

that have a heavier impact on some cultural groups than on another.

“The simplest variety of inductive reasoning is argument by analogy, which

takes note of the fact that two or more things are similar in some respects and

concludes that they are probably also similar in some further respect. Not every

analogy is an argument, we frequently use such comparisons simply to explain or

illustrate what we mean. But arguments by analogy are common

too.”(http://www.philosophypages.com/lg/e13.htm, 2016 ).

Margalit and Raz argued that it is important to preserve cultural traditions. They

reject “difference-blind liberalism” because, they hold that “cultural groups should be

able to live in accordance with their own principles, they call this ‘self-determination’