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Free speech dies when the populace grows complacent and takes its liberties for granted.
Andrew Doyle • Free Speech And Why It Matters
It may make what is in fact a social and man-made institution, and hence an institution that is in principle alterable, appear to be fixed and natural.
James Gordon Finlayson • Habermas: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
rationality;
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
Wisdom lies in discernment, and utopianism and nostalgia alike are ways of abandoning discernment.
Alan Jacobs • Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind
Where Balibar, as a consequence, sees our inconvertible cruelty as always about to undermine our politics, and our confidence in politics, Wendy Brown sees neoliberalism – which she defines in Undoing the Demos as ‘a peculiar form of reason that configures all aspects of existence in economic terms’ – as ‘quietly undoing basic elements of democracy
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He remains the foremost architect of political liberalism.
Louis N Sarkozy • Napoleon's Library: The Emperor, His Books and Their Influence on the Napoleonic Era
the mental inertia that John Stuart Mill called the ‘deep slumber of a decided opinion’.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
All of these thinkers opposed bigness and prescribed a greater humility about one’s unavoidable ignorance. No one could fully understand all the facts of the dynamic market any more than one could weigh the true costs of introducing a vast new flow of traffic through neighborhoods like New York’s SoHo and West Village, which had developed organical
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