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

The Moral Imagination

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Solzhenitsyn's Critique of Anthropocentric Humanism

Solzhenitsyn worried that many of the same philosophical assumptions about the person, nature, progress and society dominated the West. He said anthropocentric humanism for him was a kind of corruption of liberty and human dignity. People say this as, sorry, I wanted you to go on that, but some people think his critique of anthropocentrism has illiberal political consequences. It's all nonsense, but it's repeated endlessly despite the criticisms of people like me who try to set the record straight.

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