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7/1/2025, 11:41:33 PM
>>24511232
It's the same old straw man where the only alternatives are liberalism, Stalinism, or theocracy. Hence, any critic of liberalism who isn't in favor of Stalinism or theocracy is actually secretly a liberal.
It's a sort of Manicheanism. Actually, I can think that liberalism's anthropology, which really defines it, needs to be torn up root and branch as incredibly shallow, and dismiss Rawls, Hume, Smith, etc.'s idea of reason as wholly procedural AND still support republican government, religious freedom, a safety net, technological development, etc. But in dismissing liberalism's claim that considerations of human telos can be "bracketed out" of political consideration, I will cease to be a liberal. Things would look very different. Religion would not be defacto eliminated from public life. Education would focus on the development of virtue. Any safety net would focus on the common good, not the ability of atomized individuals to sait their appetites, etc.
It's the same old straw man where the only alternatives are liberalism, Stalinism, or theocracy. Hence, any critic of liberalism who isn't in favor of Stalinism or theocracy is actually secretly a liberal.
It's a sort of Manicheanism. Actually, I can think that liberalism's anthropology, which really defines it, needs to be torn up root and branch as incredibly shallow, and dismiss Rawls, Hume, Smith, etc.'s idea of reason as wholly procedural AND still support republican government, religious freedom, a safety net, technological development, etc. But in dismissing liberalism's claim that considerations of human telos can be "bracketed out" of political consideration, I will cease to be a liberal. Things would look very different. Religion would not be defacto eliminated from public life. Education would focus on the development of virtue. Any safety net would focus on the common good, not the ability of atomized individuals to sait their appetites, etc.
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