Michael Walzer on Liberalism and its Critics
The Good Fight
The Importance of Freedom of Speech
I think I may be realizing that if you are a liberal communitarian then perhaps I am a communitarian liberal because to try to go through a similar exercise on the liberal side, there is a kind of perfectionist liberalism. There is a type of liberalism which does not just say that the fundamental building block of our political society is individuals with their rights and duties. But the best way to live is reasonably secular that we should be skeptical towards religious associations. And so my understanding of liberalism is one in which the fundamental liberal rights that people have always fought for is recognized as always having served the maintenance of different communities.
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