Sentences with phrase «of modern liberalism»
How we are to evaluate and challenge creatively the heirs of modern liberalism depends on what we take freedom to be, and not to be.
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The New Communitarians and the Crisis of Modern Liberalism by Bruce Frohnen (University Press of Kansas) is a sharply critical treatment of the movement that highlights the ways in which the communitarian impulse has been hijacked by people such as Mario Cuomo and Hillary Clinton.
In the eighteenth century, the founders of modern liberalism embraced an argument that posited human wants and needs as infinitely expandable.
When, in the great movement of modern liberalism, we demythologized the state and rejected most of the metaphysical foundations of politics, we gained much» but we also lost something, and one of the things we lost is any coherent theory about the nation's continuing authority to enact such metaphysically fitting punishments as the death penalty.
What defines this line is the way in which all positions on it, from one end to the other, are committed to a form of modern liberalism which, as we noted above, prioritizes the individual and the present.
Holloway described the children of modern liberalism as «serfs of the Freudian overlord».
Michael Novak reflected on the ways in which «Catholic Whigs» correct the excessive individualism of modern liberalism without courting the dangers of collectivism.
For Burke, the French Revolution had the good effect of waking him up from a kind of progressivist slumber when it comes to the humane effects of modern liberalism and the modern free economy, but Strauss suggests it pushed him too far in the other direction.
While the German Protestants never developed something similar to Catholic social doctrine, they have a long history of influential reflection and action on social and economic issues, as well as a tradition of ethical critique of modern liberalism.
But instead the Church is too often just another smoothed - over institution on the terrain of modern liberalism.
More than any other doctrine, it defies the universalism at the core of modern liberalism.
I don't think this will work, because the deeper dynamic of modern liberalism is toward the public provision of meaning and security for atomized individuals otherwise vulnerable and uncertain about life.
In the second part, «Unanticipated Consequences of Emancipation,» Wisse sketches» through the lens of the Jewish experience» the crisis of modern liberalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Autonomous ethics is the conceit of modern liberalism that the individual is a law unto himself....
How Nick Clegg can seriously class himself as Liberal is beyond me and given the party's record while in this despicable coalition, I feel many supporters and potential voters will never vote Liberal while Clegg is the two faces of modern liberalism.
Neuhaus quotes the following passage from my book, The New Communitarians and the Crisis of Modern Liberalism: «Reeducation is by nature inegalitarian.
The great Founder of modern liberalism — John Locke — said that in a free country you'd better be rich if you're going to get old, and, unfortunately in some ways, that's probably more true and more difficult than ever.