14 theses for a new liberalism
1. Liberalism is a practical political philosophy of freedom. His goal is to make the practice of self-determination and self-assembly to draft a liberal civil society. Liberalism is not a theory, much less an ideology, but the continued and practical test, the time in which we live, to gain more freedom for the people we are. His basic question is: What to do in order to realize more freedom for more people?
second The output of liberalism as a practical political philosophy of the individual human being's dignity. Man wins his dignity from the inevitability of their individual and collective human-being - from the mystery and mystery of a life that is revealed only in the liberal organization's own life.
third We believe that every person to liberty, that is capable of self-determination, and that every policy has to take its output in humility as its end point in this self-determination. All policies must be judged by what it contributes to self-determination of the individual.
4th Everyone has the right to live according to his life plan and make the ties that match his work in the world. We believe in the power and reason of the individual, in the design of one's life work to take part in the world.
5th We also know that actively shaping their own lives and the world is rich condition. We see the idea of "living art" a tradition of free thought, which sought since ancient times, therefore, teach the art of self-determination as the art of personal practical philosophy.
6th Where the person concerned to deal with the challenges of the world in cooperation with others, is the freedom of individual self-determination, the freedom of self-organization. In self-determination is reached the man in self-organization he founded community, society, government and politics.
7th Where man's relationship with other people comes in and designed to be it to the citizens. But citizens do not fall from heaven. Liberalism as a practical political philosophy is the sophisticated art of collective self-determination through self-organization of civil society.
8th Liberalism writes the tradition of civil society continues as democratically constituted practice of freedom of equals. The liberal civil society is both a political as a cultural, a social, an economic, social and historic project with more than 2000 years of tradition. It is for liberalism as a practical philosophy of freedom, both fund of his own thought as the focus of one's actions.
9th Who freedom only material, not spiritual, only quantitatively, not qualitatively, only in the singular, not plural understand harms of freedom. Who are the four orders of freedom: reduced rule of law, market economy, democracy and as a staple of the three other civil society on the order of only one, two or three of these systems, reducing the idea and the project of freedom.
10th Anyone who believes that the idea and the project of freedom can be realized sufficiently in the parliamentary arm of a state-carrying party, weakened heart and brain of this project. Who liberty only as a static space for freedom, not as a dynamic liberation understand who designed the practice of freedom, regardless of the historical situation, who is the exegesis of the writings of dead men before the risk of his own thought, curtailing their freedom.
11th We know that we take with civil society as a practice of freedom responsible for a form of human civilization, which is always at risk and never quite recovered. But we believe that the liberal civil society of tomorrow a better and more just society as the community of fear and uncertainty of today.
12th We face the environmental, social, economic and political challenges of our time, knowing that only a practice will be the self-determination and self-organization in a position to add the wealth make the ideas and initiatives, activities and actions, knowledge and values in our society to address these challenges fruitful.
13th Liberalism loves life in all its diversity, its inexhaustible and its surprises. We choose life from death, from the affirmation of negation, the optimism from pessimism, from the design of persistence, the sense of joy in the presence of asceticism, the generosity of fear. In each challenge, we still see a chance for the people, nor a task for the Liberals.
14th In this spirit Free Democrats make free democracies, free states, free markets and free Companies. Full of pride in our tradition and in humility for the dignity of the individual and the diversity of life, we accept the political and the spiritual, moral and cultural leadership of our societies.
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