西方自由主义的源与流

自由主义是西方社会的主流思想,也是西方的主流文化。西方自由主义立基于基督教的基本理念,经过文艺复兴和宗教改革的洗礼,逐步萌芽发展。洛克和苏格兰启蒙运动是现代自由主义的起点。历经兴起、中衰、复兴的漫长过程,自由主义分化为新自由主义和古典自由主义两个主要分支。

The Origin and Stream of Liberalism

Liberalism is the mainstream ideology as well as the mainstream culture in the western society. Western liberalism is based on the guiding principles of Christianity,progressively sprouts and develops through the baptism of cultural renaissance and religious reform. Rock and the enlightenment in Scotland is the starting point of liberalism. Liberalism is devided into two branches of neoliberalism and classical liberalism through long process of the springing up,decline and resurrection.