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Ep. 2: Dan Mahoney: Solzhenitsyn and the Gulag Archipelago Dan Mahoney

The Moral Imagination

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Solzhenitsyn, Anthropocentric Humanism

Sally Kohn: Solzhenitsyn is a misunderstood writer and thinker. She says he's trying to get at the idea that liberty needs a proper grounding. If human beings conceive of themselves as little gods, she says, they confuse freedom with self-deification. Kohn: pure autonomy or anthropocentrism has ways of devolving into various forms of human self-ad slavery, tyranny.

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