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Patrick Deneen on the Failure of Liberalism and the Importance of Relational Living

The Sacred

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Why Liberalism Failed

Philip Stanley: Why Liberalism Failed is a critique of not just liberal philosophy, but the way in which liberal philosophy becomes realized. He says it's an argument that we can understand what true human nature is if we look at human beings and what comes to be known as the state of nature. Stanley: We would imagine them in a world without politics, in a world where, in a sense, relationality doesn't even exist. And this condition is described as one in which we are all completely free and completely equal.

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