Conservatism vs Liberalism: Reviewing Yoram Hazony's Case for Conservatism, with Dr Simon Kennedy
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What Does This Have to Do With Enlightenment Liberalism Again?
Conservative epistemology is actually quite skeptical of reason. It's not anti-reason, but doesn't think reason really should be the primary basis for determining your political knowledge. And they trust human reason, and that idea of universal reason or universally accessible concepts are right at the center of their concept of reason. They think that everyone can access what is universally true if they just use their brain correctly. So this is something that has only is pushing back on. If we want to make this concrete, this has worked itself out in the last 30 or 40 years in the building of the American Empire,. where you have Americans trying to helicopter in a liberal democracy into places which Americans seem to think could
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