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Karl Schmidt's Critique of Liberalism
This episode is not talking about the merits of liberalism, but karl schmidt's critique of liberalism. Tliberalism was created as an alternative political philosophy that was supposed to be a solution to many of the political problems of the past. One of the dominant theories among the thinkers of the enlightenment was that if we let these liberal values play out and allow them to reach their natural conclusions, we will be the architects of a brand new, cosmopolitan, peaceful world. To understand karl scmitt, this is the perspective from which we need to view liberalism.