| The Westen Democratic Tradition |
| by Professor L.J.M. Cooray |
| Preface | 14 | The Cumulative Experience of Mankind |
| Introduction
| 15 |
The Evolutionary Balance Undermined |
| 1 | The Original Values and
Institutions | 16 | The Critical Spirit
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| 2 | The Reform Ideas
| 17 | The Failure to Invest in Ideas
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| 3 | Freedom
| 18 | "Here's a problem, we must do something" |
| 4 | The Three
Interconnected Fundamentals | 19. | The Effects of the Reformist Ethos
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| 5. | Economic Freedom
| 20.
| No Promise of a Utopia |
| 6. |
Limitations on Power of Government | 21. | Modern Reform Movements
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| 7 | Limited Government Undermined | 22 |
The Coercive versus the Liberal Utopian
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| 8 | Limits on the power of the legislature
| 23 |
A Better Future for Mankind |
| 9 |
Law based on individual responsibility | 24. | Christianity, Liberalism and Tradition |
| 10 |
Rights and duties - the old order and the new | 25 | From Bondage to Freedom and Back
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| 11 |
The moral and spiritual roots
| 26 |
An Epitaph |
| 12 |
The attempt to create a "new man" | 27 |
The Exportability of the Tradition |
| 13. |
Communism and democratic socialism
| 28.
| Epilogue |
| Index | Home | |