Notable Social Liberal Thinkers
This list presents some notable scholars and politicians who are generally considered as having made significant contributions to the evolution of social liberalism as a political ideology:
- Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832)
- John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)
- Thomas Hill Green (1836–1882)
- Lester Frank Ward (1841–1913)
- Lujo Brentano (1844–1931)
- Bernard Bosanquet (1848–1923)
- Émile Durkheim (1858–1917)
- John Atkinson Hobson (1858–1940)
- John Dewey (1859–1952)
- Friedrich Naumann (1860–1919)
- Gerhart von Schulze-Gävernitz (1864–1943)
- Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (1864–1929)
- William Beveridge (1879–1963)
- Hans Kelsen (1881–1973)
- John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946)
- Carlo Rosselli (1899–1937)
- Bertil Ohlin (1899–1979)
- Piero Gobetti (1901–1926)
- Guido Calogero (1904–1986)
- Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997)
- Norberto Bobbio (1909–2004)
- Miguel Reale (1910–2005)
- Don Chipp (1925–2006)
- Karl-Hermann Flach (1929–1973)
- Vlado Gotovac (1930–2000)
- Richard Rorty (1931–2007)
- Ronald Dworkin (b. 1931)
- Amartya Sen (b. 1933)
- Eduard Punset (b. 1936)
- José G. Merquior (1941–1991)
- Bruce Ackerman (b. 1943)
- Paul Krugman (b. 1953)
- Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
- John Rawls (1921–2002)
- Dirk Verhofstadt (b. 1955)
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