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Man can be viewed as an object to be controlled, disciplined, indoctrinated.
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Man can be viewed as an object to be controlled, disciplined, indoctrinated.
Patrick Deneen writes that the nonaggression principle promotes a liberalism that is harmful to society, as evidenced by John Stuart Mill's idea of the…
Extreme attacks should be supplanted by voices touting commonsense values.
The modern conception, in Deneen's view, spawned societal pathologies that the modern liberal framework cannot solve. His proposed solution in "Why Liberalism Failed" was to lean into the creation of a counterculture that would stand in defiance of this dominant paradigm, a sentiment resonating with the likes of Rod Dreher's "Benedict Option" strain of community-based Christianity, a self-contained and intentional microcosm that can survive the horrors of another dark age, forest passage, or whichever metaphor believers wish to use to conceptualize these putativel...
From Burke to Buckley to Patrick Deneen, we've seen a 200-year history of defending the indefensible