Is There a Boundary Problem, Which All Societies Have?

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I think that we really have no choice in the end, but to debate issues of free speech on perfection as terms. It is true that when you do it that way, there will be people whose perfectionism produces for them different results than mine produces for me. But I'm saying that a perfectionist case can be made against civil liberty - and i think this is a powerful one. We can't have people denying science or truths about society because they are not perfect themselves. That's what antiperfectionist liberals don't seem to want... Wouldn't expect it from joe rogan or bret weinstein or heather hing and so forth.

Robert P. George is an American legal scholar and political philosopher. The McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, George is considered one of the foremost conservative intellectuals in America, and advocates a theory of natural law consistent with Catholic belief. With Cornel West, he authored a statement on “Truth Seeking, Democracy, and Freedom of Thought and Expression.”

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Robert P. George discuss the political philosophy of John Rawls, why democratic republics can’t function without free speech, and what relevance the first principles of conservatism do or don't retain today.

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