Conversations in a Crisis: Part III: Reforming Our Political Imaginaries (with Rev Benjamin Miller)
Alastair's Adversaria
What Is a Common Good?
I think it's very difficult sometimes for press here in the states to have a sense that our life, my life with my neighbors, stands or falls together. We tend to think about freedom as individual autonomy. That's the paradom case. But for many m groups, certainly historically, that has been freedom has been seen more in terms of the freedom of that collective agency. And so when people have liberty as a country from some external power that is imposing its order upon them, it's not just the feeling of now we can all do what's right in our own eyes as individuals. It's the fact we now have a common assertion of our direction as a people. and
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