Nowadays the word Liberal is often used as a pejorative. In other words, liberalism didn’t solely want a answer to the drama of irresolvable ethical conflict, it wished a solution that protected individual liberty. The Fable of Liberal Individualism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Nevertheless, by emphasising the concept of autonomy, liberalism averted the pitfall of trying to justify political arrangements by any of the contested worldviews that characterize a plural society.
The bastion of autocracy , the Russian Tsar , was overthrown in the first part of the Russian Revolution The Allied victory in the First World Warfare and the collapse of four empires appeared to mark the triumph of liberalism across the European continent, not simply among the victorious allies , but also in Germany and the newly created states of Eastern Europe Militarism, as typified by Germany, was defeated and discredited.
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