Problem
The Romantic ideal of liberalism was a core ideology and value of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. To help clarify this notion, liberal education is one where one is educated in many different ideas and practices. Being an educated humanist is to be one who is liberally educated--a jack of all trades and a master of some. The Promethean Hero is the archetypal notion the liberal ideal is derived from. What does the term liberal, properly used, mean? Consider how the liberal idea has been corrupted and is losing its actual meaning today. How did this loss of meaning come about? In the process of your analysis compare the meaning of the term liberal, properly understood, is contrary to the ideas of Marxism. Furthermore, consider how are both ideas products of the Enlightenment?