Conservatism vs Liberalism: Reviewing Yoram Hazony's Case for Conservatism, with Dr Simon Kennedy
The Political Animals
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Is There a Public Religion?
Simon Hooper: The ideal public religion might be a basic mere Christianity apostles creed kind of arrangement where you have... Your public Christianity is really basic, but it's still Christian. And then I think if you had Christianity as the accepted moral and religious norm for public life, and that would entail taking Christian morality seriously even if people didn't believe it in their hearts. He says political philosophers are entitled to hold to articulate norms that have no prospect of being realised because if you're not, then really we're saying all politics is descriptive and totally realist and pragmatic.Hooper: One of the virtues of Hazone’s epistemology is this idea that what works locally might differ
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