Civil Society, Civic Education and Public Opinion in the Concept of Corporate Liberalism by William Lyon Mackenzie King
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Abstract
The article examines the problem of importance, place, and role of civil society, civil education, and public opinion in the conception of corporate liberalism by the Canadian statesman and political theoretician William Lyon Mackenzie King, according to his work “Industry and Humanity.” The viewpoint of W. L. M. King on the place and role of these phenomena stems from the combination of the basic principles of liberalism with the organic vision of nature of society and humanity as the whole in his work. According to this, state and civil society, as well as various social groups have fundamental general interest which lies in the provision of their maintenance and steady development, and that is why a dialogue and collaboration between them are the natural and necessary phenomenon that assists overcoming second-rate differences between them. The state takes the role of regulator and moderator of the relations between different social groups with divergent interests and should assist the establishment of trust and collaboration between them, avoiding the authoritarian interference.According to W. L. M. King, public opinion is the thin mechanism of political power that informs government and civil society of social problems, and it can assist their effective decision foremost through pressure and persuasion. That is why it needs considerable skillfulness, especially in the conditions of democratic governance. For this reason it needs the education that forms the qualities and skills necessary for enlightened public opinion and civil co-cooperation, i. e. civil education. Such education can be provided by both state and non-government organizations.According to W. L. M. King, the partnership and cooperation between civil society, the representatives of business, local self-government, state and international organizations are necessary on local, national, and global levels. It results in the establishment of trust and publicity, helps to overcome antagonistic relations and abuses, assists the increase of the standards of life of the people and the decision of humanitarian problems which the author of “Industry and Humanity” considered priority.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".