The phrase "liberal theory" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to the political and philosophical ideas and principles that promote individual rights, freedom, and equality in society. Example: According to liberal theory, governments should prioritize protecting civil liberties and promoting social justice.
The communitarian revival in political theory began with Michael Sandel's landmark book of 1982, Liberalism and the Limits of Justice, which skewered the "unencumbered self" of liberal theory.
Perhaps liberal theory is just too silly for the real world.
All the principled "mantras of liberal theory," he says, are immoral.
There is the liberal theory, in which teams of experts draw up plans to engineer order wherever problems arise.
(For Black, originalism was a liberal theory, not the conservative one it would become decades later in the hands of Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas).
Xu, who is well-versed in Western analytical philosophy and liberal theory, emphasizes the importance of "rational analysis" before taking any action.
A student commented that liberal theories may not be appropriate in China.
The Idea of individual rights, a product of liberal theories of the 18th century, won out over its historical rivals, notably fascism and communism.
But then academics provoked a thoroughgoing rethinking of penal policy, with their argument that it ought to reflect the region's liberal theories of social organization.
James R. Copland, director of the Center for Legal Policy at the Manhattan Institute, said it was significant that Judge Sotomayor had endorsed a "traditionalist" view of judging and distanced herself from liberal theories.
All these play a central part as the villains of the piece in socialist and liberal theories of war, and even those not subscribing to such theories do not deny the importance of military-industrial complexes in countries in which large sectors of the economy specialize in war supplies.
