38 | Liberal Democracy in Crisis: Carl Schmitt and the Present
What's Left of Philosophy
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What Makes Legitimacy?
The true and the just are what confer legitimacy, not necessarily like majorities, or even necessarily minorities. So he distinguishes between two different ways of understanding what makes legitimacy. He takes hobbs's side against the liberal version of trying to claim that you have truth and justice on your side. And this ultimate harmony is, as owen was saying, truth and justice. It willno, it will work itself out, even if it's not. Yoa like a mechanical law. An as reading o well esye oye all are about to lose me. Wea o saveor boisis is about to be a very different pod.
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