Western democracy has become increasingly estranged from its crucial historical, political, spiritual, and cultural prerequisites-- what author Daniel J. Mahoney calls "the conservative foundations of the liberal order." In this eloquent and insightful work of political philosophy and cultural criticism, Mahoney offers a vigorous defense of these foundations, and shows the dangers of identifying liberty with a radical project of social and cultural emancipation. The Conservative Foundations of the Liberal Order takes ...
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Western democracy has become increasingly estranged from its crucial historical, political, spiritual, and cultural prerequisites-- what author Daniel J. Mahoney calls "the conservative foundations of the liberal order." In this eloquent and insightful work of political philosophy and cultural criticism, Mahoney offers a vigorous defense of these foundations, and shows the dangers of identifying liberty with a radical project of social and cultural emancipation. The Conservative Foundations of the Liberal Order takes particular aim at partisans of "pure democracy," who have transformed the principles of liberty and equality into an unreflective dogma. By reducing liberty to a vague affirmation of equality and individual autonomy, Mahoney shows, such partisans undermine those "contents of life" --, patriotism, philosophical reflection, family and social life-- enrich human existence and give purpose to human freedom. What we need instead is a conservative-minded liberalism.
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