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

The Sacred

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The Importance of Relationships

I think the way we go about offering ideas into the world is as important as the ideas that we're offering. And I am losing faith in that whole theory of change, because if we're seeking the common good, then the way we can pour ourselves is vital. It's not a sort of violent overthrow of the government; it's a fundamentally different way of seeing what politics is. That would be just replacing one group of bad people with another group ofbad people. But but but the phrase Machiavellian means to Aristotelian ends. What I was really appealing to there.

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