The Denial of the Capabilities of Human Reason

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I think that the biggest problem with philosophical liberalism is it's refusal but quite conscious to acknowledge the common good as something that is legible to all human beings. And so I would argue that the basic institutions that we have today have been designed with an understanding of the public good. So this ideology and I think it's a denial of the capacities of human reason forget about revelation but it’s a denial of what we can reason about the good of the person.

Sohrab Ahmari is a writer, commentator, and the founding editor of Compact. He is the author of Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty–and What to Do About It.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Sohrab Ahmari discuss the threat corporate power poses to individual freedom in the United States; whether liberalism has gone too far in prioritizing individual autonomy over the common good; and why they disagree about whether attempting to move beyond liberalism would make things better or worse.

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