Patrick Deneen on Why Liberalism Failed
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The Great Obstacle to Our Liberty
The great and overarching question was always what are the limits of in some ways, you could say, the human ma nation. And at the core of the liberal project is the idea that nature is the other great obstacle to our liberty. i think you see a continuous set of arguments from proto liberal thinkers like francis bacon and thomas hobbs,. figures like john locke, and even in the american tradition, a John dewey.
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