
Patrick Deneen on Why Liberalism Failed
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Is There a Need to Look Outside of the Binary Terms?
i don't think this is a particularly good form of parenting, and i don't think it's a good form of generational responsibility. When the sole criteria becomes economic growth and the increase of wealth, it seems to me it has to be re connected to the discipline of politics and political philosophy. If an economy is generating titanic forms of an quality, it's likely to have very bad political repercussions. This is understood by aristotle, as understood by machiavelli. And that part of the equation seems to have fallen out, entirely out of economics thinking. I'm a big fan an tyler cowan discusses in his book, average is over.
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