Ethical Base of Liberalism

This article is part of the Basic Liberalism Course -> Module 2: Liberalism and its ethical foundations

Ethical Base of Liberalism

To understand this page you must first read the previous page of the course -> Liberal ethical currents.

Liberalism has its main ethical sources in IusNaturalism (especially in Locke) and in Kant (its modern improvement), with a secondary but important influence from utilitarianism.

In other words, if your base is iusnaturalist + Kant and then utilitarian you're good, you can consider yourself libertarian/liberal. What percentage of each one? Well, that depends on each person's decision.

In the writer's opinion, the percentages could be the following:

If you are a believer

Thinker/Current	Percentage	Reasoning
Kant	Around 40%	In the current context in the world where the crisis is primarily moral, we must not deviate from the criterion of good, under no motive
Iusnaturalism	Around 40%	To know what ideas we are defending
Utilitarianism	Around 20%	Pragmatism to put the ideas into action, in this case the excluded minorities must also be analyzed by the previous criteria

If you are NOT a believer

Thinker/Current	Percentage	Reasoning
Kant	40%	In the current context in the world where the crisis is primarily moral, we must not deviate from the criterion of good, under no motive
Iusnaturalism	30%	To know what ideas we are defending
Existentialism of Camus	20%	For his solidary rebellion in the face of the Absurd
Utilitarianism	10%	Pragmatism to put the ideas into action, in this case the excluded minorities must also be analyzed by the previous criteria

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