
Review: Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick Deneen
Nature and the Nation
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The Evolution of Liberalism
Liberalism is not merely a narrowly political project of constitutional government and juridical defense of rights. Rather, it seeks to transform all of human life and the world. It's anthropological individualism in the voluntarist conception of choice. Its insistence on the human separation from an opposition to nature created its distinctive and new understanding of liberty as the most extensive possible expansion of the human sphere of autonomous activity.
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