Sublime

As citizens, he argued, we need two essential moral “powers” or “capacities.” First, the “capacity for a conception of the good”—in other words, the ability to reflect on and pursue our own idea of how we want to live. Second, the “capacity for a sense of justice”—the ability to form our own view about how we should organize society, and to

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An excellent essay from @johnwwright77 on whether “realist liberals” like @danwwang are correct that the situation in the West is solvable through better technocracy or whether I’m right that liberalism is collapsing and the West needs a whole new model of politics. 🔗 in comment.

Si de nombreux jeunes gens sont aujourd’hui en quête de lignes directrices, c’est pour une bonne raison. En Occident du moins, la Génération Y est dans une situation historique unique. C’est la première, il me semble, à qui des professeurs de ma propre génération ont simultanément enseigné à l’école et à l’université deux visions apparemment

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