The Antipathy to Culture in Liberalism

Dewey traces his thought back to Francis Bacon, whom he considered the most important thinker in history. A core feature of the liberal project is antipathy to culture as a deep relationship with a nature that defines and limits human nature. Today's liberals recoil from Dewey's effort to eliminate culture toward the end of dominating nature. But they are inclined to accept the liberal belief in human separateness from nature and insist upon the conquest of humanity.