Antiperfectionism

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I think a more powerful case can be made for civil liberties. It's just a question of where you think the argument should take place. Should it take place on perfectionis terms, or does antiperfectionism enable us to parachute out of those difficult questions? And this is why i've sometimes described rols's project, and i'm misunderstood. But i call the project heroic. I think it's a spectacular failure, but a spectacular one. We're just about everybody realizes that gus rolls is really there making some perfectionist assumptions. He's thinking that he's not, he's in good faith. The one's about the nature of the good and how it's best served

Robert P. George is an American legal scholar and political philosopher. The McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, George is considered one of the foremost conservative intellectuals in America, and advocates a theory of natural law consistent with Catholic belief. With Cornel West, he authored a statement on “Truth Seeking, Democracy, and Freedom of Thought and Expression.”

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Robert P. George discuss the political philosophy of John Rawls, why democratic republics can’t function without free speech, and what relevance the first principles of conservatism do or don't retain today.

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