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Any well-developed conception of the good must recognize not just one human interest, but a whole variety. And that means a negotiation between conflicting interests in the name of civil peace. A ‘modus vivendi’ is the liberalism now in order. -John Gray, quoted in Noema Magazine Issue No 5
Partiality to loved ones is justified because it is an essential ingredient in one of the highest of human goods.”
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
The Straussian Moment
gwern.netThis is the political, philosophical foundation of liberalism, the theory upon which the United States was built. And it is the moral and political language that we are uncritically taught from the beginnings of our education. Is it any wonder that we have forgotten a Catholic language of justice, the common good, solidarity, and charity?
Kenneth Craycraft • Citizens Yet Strangers: Living Authentically Catholic in a Divided America
Liberty is not freedom from obligations or freedom for selfish interests but a freedom of care for oneself and for others. Individual fulfilment based on personal autonomy has to be balanced with mutual flourishing. Equality is not sameness but a respect for the basic and integral dignity of everyone: their body, mind and soul.
Adrian Pabst • Postliberal Politics: The Coming Era of Renewal
cold-blooded need for control.
Michael B. Oren • Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
Reason, Revelation, and the Civic Order: Political Philosophy and the Claims of Faith
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