Liberalism is a broad church of ideology that has provided the staple set of principles that form modern political thought. Since its inception as one of the core developments of the enlightenment, liberalism has evolved into a vast, all spanning and often contradictory forest of political thought. Though some forms of liberalism seem poles apart they all, for the most part, share the same underlying principles, those being ideas of tolerance, reason, justice and above …showed first 75 words of 1237 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1237 total…from its core beliefs. None the less it is fair to say that the basic ideals of liberalism have influenced all political creeds through out the western world. In fact its fair to say that liberalism is the hardiest of all ideologies, surviving from its birth in the enlightenment and out lasting feudalism and communism along the way and infusing its self into every sphere of western political thought as well as influencing countless others.