Sublime

It is as though the enquiring aspect of liberalism was at some stage replaced with a liberal dogmatism: a dogmatism that insists questions are settled which are unsettled, that matters are known which are unknown and that we have a very good idea of how to structure a society along inadequately argued lines.

The New Right holds to the idea that aspiring to the literally impossible (i.e., pure democracy) is insane, dangerous, and almost inevitably counterproductive. Democracy should thus be regarded not as an ideal but as a bait-and-switch used by the left to foster their own elite—one that is allegedly in the service of everyone. It is one of the left’

“The wise man shows his wisdom in separation, in gradation, and his scale of creatures and of merits is as wide as nature,” writes Emerson. “The foolish have no range in their scale, but suppose every man is as every other man.” Ultimately to say that people all share the same hopes and fears, are all born and love and suffer and die alike, is to s

Political Philosophy: Studies good and bad social institutions, and how society ought to be arranged.

Man is not a combination of an impersonal rational thinker and a personal will.

freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness.

Locke’s political philosophy was, on the whole, adequate and useful until the industrial revolution. Since then, it has been increasingly unable to tackle the important problems. The power of property, as embodied in vast corporations, grew beyond anything imagined by Locke.