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Patrick Deneen on Why Liberalism Failed

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Liberalism

Liberalism is not jus that it sees nature as an obstacle. It deconstructs the realm of culture. Our tradition is we don't have one. Our culture is we don’t have a i think that's a very deep, interesting way to think about it. I think this is to exstent i think we had a kind of a remnant culture t was obviously informed by an older christian understanding of the human person. That persisted for a time. The argument of my book is that the underlying political philosophy had its own logic that eventually dissembled a that culture and that tradition. And that's where we find ourselves to day.

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