-Regine Villanueva, 2011-48248
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Liberalism
I was reading through the book, "Politics" and I came across the ideology of Liberalism. It has a neoliberalism component of Individualism, which we have discussed in the past meetings. I was just wondering if the practice of this ideology includes the use of the schools of thought which have been said to possess individualistic views?
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Liberalism
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