Who is the Greatest liberal thinker of are time?
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that is an oxymoron, I dont understand how to answer it
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Albert Einstein. \n\nTime travel is kind of like standing at the north pole you can travel but only south. Time is a perception of the mind (as is all of the universe!), as Albert said "Time is an illusion, although persistent still just an illusion!". We can only travel forward in time, we CAN distort time however as we do so our perception (which is a factor of time) is also distorted so that we cannot detect the distortion. The best reading is Einsteins theories.
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Here's some interesting reading that I've found while looking for an answer to your question. I hope this helps. I'm not a philosophy major, but I do find it very interesting.\n\n"Interpreting Hobbes as the father of classical liberalism, Manent identifies Thomas Hobbes as the champion of absolute political authority-as the founding and paradigmatic liberal."\nhttp://www.dailyrepublican.com/liberalhistory.html\n\n"Why is a modern state disposed to destroy the corporate liberty of independent social authorities and concentrate power to the centre? And why is this destruction perceived as morally legitimate? The answer was given in 1651 by Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan, which frames the first and most profound theory of the modern state. Hobbes pictures mankind as an aggregate of egoists in a state of nature without government, each pursuing his own power and glory without restraint. Since this is a self-defeating condition of constant conflict, rational egoists compact with one another to form a government for the sake of peace and stability. The sole end of the Hobbesian state is to maximize the individual's autonomy."\nhttp://www.southernevents.org/tyranny_of_liberalism_and_its_ev.htm\n\n"Among the constitutional provisions of the new United States of America one of the most important in limiting the power of government was held to be the device of the separation of powers. This represented a challenge not only to absolutism, but also to the theory of sovereignty, which had been used to give intellectual support to absolutism and to the more general principle of the supremacy of the state. Hobbes had argued that the only adequate bulwark against division, civil conflict and chaos within a society was the establishment of a single and indivisible ultimate authority—a sovereign."\nhttp://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/arblaster.htm\n\nhttp://www.iep.utm.edu/h/hobmoral.htm
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Liberal, they believe in evolution
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Voltaire.  It's my favorite quote.
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Yes - he is eloquent and erudite; writes fine articles full of reason and rationality.  Too bad the poverty pimps hate him so much for being a black conservative; all black people should be liberal Democrats, right?  Right?
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Hannibal Lechter.\n\nSo courteous. So erudite :-))
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"Lost time is never found again"\n- Benjamin Franklin Ibid 1743\n\n"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana"\n-Groucho Marx\n\n"Tempus fugit" (time flies)\n-Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Fasti\n\n"Sed fugit interea, fugit inreparabile tempus"\n(Time meanwhile flies, never to return)\n-Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
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yes, it's a great work in the tradition of social contract theory. you should also read his book Political Liberalism.
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Ronald Reagan. \n\nI remember George Bush Sr. worked 16 hour days pretty frequently.
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Ronald Reagan (Modern Times) Saving the US from Communism and Liberalism\n\nAbraham Lincoln - Preserving the Union
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Liberal history started in November 2000 after BUSH stole the election.  They have no other perspective.
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a liberal - both are dicks
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I disagree with you 100 percent, but I think I have a book that will fill the bill....\n\nThe Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America (Hardcover) by David Horowitz \nHorowitz is a dis-illusioned liberal from the 1960s who has taken up the conservative cause.
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1)  Karl Marx.  He laid out the principle that when there is too great a divide between the haves and the have-nots, civil unrest occurs.  This can be as simple as the LA riots, or as massive as Chinese revolution.  Taxes are one of many ways in which the inequity is reduced, thereby staving off the marked Decline of Western Civilization for another few decades.\n2)  Karl Marx.  Try riding the back of the bus through Dorchester and Roxbury while wearing a gold Rolex and fur coat.  Now ask the folks sittin' next to you if they think you should be paying the same rate of tax as they do.  If you make it home alive, you'll have proven to yourself that you probably ought to be paying more.
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I love Michael Wilbon, he's by far more informative and for what it's worth a fantastic writer.\n\nHowever Tony Cornheiser is HILARIOUS...his one liners last night about Rush's ganked Viagra were awesome...
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Probably George Washington.  He inhereted a country that was pretty much going to Hell in a handbasket and set it on the path to become what would become arguably the greatest country in the history of mankind.  I don't think George Bush, Bill Clinton or George Bush Sr. should be listed as answers here because insufficient time has really passed for their legacies (and the full consequences of their decisions) to be assessed.