#liberalism — Public Fediverse posts
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#Propaganda is when they tell you #Freedom is good but #Liberalism is bad. #Literacy is knowing they're the same. Liber means book. Libera means free. Libertas means freedom.
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#Propaganda is when they tell you #Freedom is good but #Liberalism is bad. #Literacy is knowing they're the same. Liber means book. Libera means free. Libertas means freedom.
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#Propaganda is when they tell you #Freedom is good but #Liberalism is bad. #Literacy is knowing they're the same. Liber means book. Libera means free. Libertas means freedom.
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#Propaganda is when they tell you #Freedom is good but #Liberalism is bad. #Literacy is knowing they're the same. Liber means book. Libera means free. Libertas means freedom.
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#Propaganda is when they tell you #Freedom is good but #Liberalism is bad. #Literacy is knowing they're the same. Liber means book. Libera means free. Libertas means freedom.
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"Fascism is the legitimate child of liberalism, killing the father." — Darko Suvin (2017)
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"Fascism is the legitimate child of liberalism, killing the father." — Darko Suvin (2017)
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"Fascism is the legitimate child of liberalism, killing the father." — Darko Suvin (2017)
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"Fascism is the legitimate child of liberalism, killing the father." — Darko Suvin (2017)
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"Fascism is the legitimate child of liberalism, killing the father." — Darko Suvin (2017)
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🔴 Filosofiska rummet i P1 har haft en intressant tredelad serie nu i sommar om läget för socialismen, konservatismen och liberalismen, med olika inbjudna forskare, företrädesvis statsvetare och filosofer.
https://internationalen.se/pa-spaning-efter-socialismen-konservatismen-och-liberalismen/
#SvPol #Ideologier #Val2026 #FilosofiskaRummet #Socialism #Liberalism #Konservatism -
🔴 Filosofiska rummet i P1 har haft en intressant tredelad serie nu i sommar om läget för socialismen, konservatismen och liberalismen, med olika inbjudna forskare, företrädesvis statsvetare och filosofer.
https://internationalen.se/pa-spaning-efter-socialismen-konservatismen-och-liberalismen/
#SvPol #Ideologier #Val2026 #FilosofiskaRummet #Socialism #Liberalism #Konservatism -
🔴 Filosofiska rummet i P1 har haft en intressant tredelad serie nu i sommar om läget för socialismen, konservatismen och liberalismen, med olika inbjudna forskare, företrädesvis statsvetare och filosofer.
https://internationalen.se/pa-spaning-efter-socialismen-konservatismen-och-liberalismen/
#SvPol #Ideologier #Val2026 #FilosofiskaRummet #Socialism #Liberalism #Konservatism -
🔴 Filosofiska rummet i P1 har haft en intressant tredelad serie nu i sommar om läget för socialismen, konservatismen och liberalismen, med olika inbjudna forskare, företrädesvis statsvetare och filosofer.
https://internationalen.se/pa-spaning-efter-socialismen-konservatismen-och-liberalismen/
#SvPol #Ideologier #Val2026 #FilosofiskaRummet #Socialism #Liberalism #Konservatism -
🔴 Filosofiska rummet i P1 har haft en intressant tredelad serie nu i sommar om läget för socialismen, konservatismen och liberalismen, med olika inbjudna forskare, företrädesvis statsvetare och filosofer.
https://internationalen.se/pa-spaning-efter-socialismen-konservatismen-och-liberalismen/
#SvPol #Ideologier #Val2026 #FilosofiskaRummet #Socialism #Liberalism #Konservatism -
#MissKittyPolitics #Palestine
"So much for #Eisenkot’s supposed pragmatism and #liberalism. He openly rejects a #two-state solution and proudly supports Israeli #settlements – settlements that the international court of justice and multiple UN resolutions consider #illegal under international #law."
The media is infatuated with G... -
Supermiljöbloggen Filosofen Olof Torpman har i sin bok "En grön höger" slagit fast att liberalism och konservatism kan inrymma klimatpolitik.#AtlasNetwork #Exxon #klimatdesinformation #Klimatpolitik #konservatism #liberalism #OlofTorpman #Tidöregeringen #Timbro #val #valrörelse
När blir klimatet en fråga även för svensk höger? - Supermiljöbloggen -
Supermiljöbloggen Filosofen Olof Torpman har i sin bok "En grön höger" slagit fast att liberalism och konservatism kan inrymma klimatpolitik.#AtlasNetwork #Exxon #klimatdesinformation #Klimatpolitik #konservatism #liberalism #OlofTorpman #Tidöregeringen #Timbro #val #valrörelse
När blir klimatet en fråga även för svensk höger? - Supermiljöbloggen -
An excellent episode. From the description of this episode of The Minefield on ABC Listen:
The suspicion of hidden influence and the fear of special consideration undermine the faith of citizens in our shared institutions to behave justly.
Even when these institutions are conducting themselves equitably and representatives are making decisions on principled grounds, the ubiquity of money in politics breeds mistrust and ensures that suspicion lingers just below the surface of democratic life.
This is why any healthy political order depends on trust and is sustained through rigorous forms of public accountability.
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An excellent episode. From the description of this episode of The Minefield on ABC Listen:
The suspicion of hidden influence and the fear of special consideration undermine the faith of citizens in our shared institutions to behave justly.
Even when these institutions are conducting themselves equitably and representatives are making decisions on principled grounds, the ubiquity of money in politics breeds mistrust and ensures that suspicion lingers just below the surface of democratic life.
This is why any healthy political order depends on trust and is sustained through rigorous forms of public accountability.
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An excellent episode. From the description of this episode of The Minefield on ABC Listen:
The suspicion of hidden influence and the fear of special consideration undermine the faith of citizens in our shared institutions to behave justly.
Even when these institutions are conducting themselves equitably and representatives are making decisions on principled grounds, the ubiquity of money in politics breeds mistrust and ensures that suspicion lingers just below the surface of democratic life.
This is why any healthy political order depends on trust and is sustained through rigorous forms of public accountability.
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An excellent episode. From the description of this episode of The Minefield on ABC Listen:
The suspicion of hidden influence and the fear of special consideration undermine the faith of citizens in our shared institutions to behave justly.
Even when these institutions are conducting themselves equitably and representatives are making decisions on principled grounds, the ubiquity of money in politics breeds mistrust and ensures that suspicion lingers just below the surface of democratic life.
This is why any healthy political order depends on trust and is sustained through rigorous forms of public accountability.
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An excellent episode. From the description of this episode of The Minefield on ABC Listen:
The suspicion of hidden influence and the fear of special consideration undermine the faith of citizens in our shared institutions to behave justly.
Even when these institutions are conducting themselves equitably and representatives are making decisions on principled grounds, the ubiquity of money in politics breeds mistrust and ensures that suspicion lingers just below the surface of democratic life.
This is why any healthy political order depends on trust and is sustained through rigorous forms of public accountability.
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Growing up, I was always told to mock #socialism as a form of utopianism, as if that was a bad thing. #Utopianism was never a belief that something would happen, or that anything would be perfect. It was a thought experiment to consider what a perfect outcome would look like, so we could implement the ideas and get as close as possible. Meanwhile, #capitalism , #conservatism , #liberalism , and #libertarianism are just as #utopian in their dreams. Capitalism and libertarianism believe that if we JUST get government out of the way, we could have the #freemarkets work the way they are supposed to and lead to prosperity for all, never mind that corporations only exist because of #bankruptcy laws and standards created by Congress. Modern conservatism believes that if we just went back to a specific, unspecified time point when religion ruled, we would have prosperity again, never mind that America was never like that, even when we were at our most religious. #Liberals believe that if freedom, equality, and equity are guaranteed, but with a true free market that does require governments to regulate it, we would have true prosperity. The only difference is that #Marx , using arguments by #AdamSmith himself, poked holes in all of these ideas at their core. That the structure itself needed an overhaul of who holds power, or at least patched with a strong welfare state, and to work toward that utopian dream where the people held the power instead of the lords or #oligarchs and everyone was a lawmaker with direct democracy, there was a return of #thecommons that was just the norm for most of human history, and #personalproperty was something you physically used, erned and worked instead of from trading, hoarding and wasting while people starved aka #privateproperty . The day the lords stole the commons from the people was the day that socialism started to exist, with the Diggers and the Levelers attempting to take on the power of the lords and realizing they already ran their own villages, or communes and affairs in their areas, and the lords were just a middleman that contributed little to nothing. Hence the term #communism , which is a return to the natural commons people like #John Locke and #Voltaire and other #Enlightenment thinkers idealized, but capitalism has brainwashed people to ignore, forget, or never know in the first place they believed this while we were told to look up to them. Utopianism gives us the power to dream, to coalesce our ideas and our ideals. When we were told not to dream of our ideal world but were told to dream of their ideal, that's when the dream died and we just all became doomers. -
Growing up, I was always told to mock #socialism as a form of utopianism, as if that was a bad thing. #Utopianism was never a belief that something would happen, or that anything would be perfect. It was a thought experiment to consider what a perfect outcome would look like, so we could implement the ideas and get as close as possible. Meanwhile, #capitalism , #conservatism , #liberalism , and #libertarianism are just as #utopian in their dreams. Capitalism and libertarianism believe that if we JUST get government out of the way, we could have the #freemarkets work the way they are supposed to and lead to prosperity for all, never mind that corporations only exist because of #bankruptcy laws and standards created by Congress. Modern conservatism believes that if we just went back to a specific, unspecified time point when religion ruled, we would have prosperity again, never mind that America was never like that, even when we were at our most religious. #Liberals believe that if freedom, equality, and equity are guaranteed, but with a true free market that does require governments to regulate it, we would have true prosperity. The only difference is that #Marx , using arguments by #AdamSmith himself, poked holes in all of these ideas at their core. That the structure itself needed an overhaul of who holds power, or at least patched with a strong welfare state, and to work toward that utopian dream where the people held the power instead of the lords or #oligarchs and everyone was a lawmaker with direct democracy, there was a return of #thecommons that was just the norm for most of human history, and #personalproperty was something you physically used, erned and worked instead of from trading, hoarding and wasting while people starved aka #privateproperty . The day the lords stole the commons from the people was the day that socialism started to exist, with the Diggers and the Levelers attempting to take on the power of the lords and realizing they already ran their own villages, or communes and affairs in their areas, and the lords were just a middleman that contributed little to nothing. Hence the term #communism , which is a return to the natural commons people like #John Locke and #Voltaire and other #Enlightenment thinkers idealized, but capitalism has brainwashed people to ignore, forget, or never know in the first place they believed this while we were told to look up to them. Utopianism gives us the power to dream, to coalesce our ideas and our ideals. When we were told not to dream of our ideal world but were told to dream of their ideal, that's when the dream died and we just all became doomers. -
Growing up, I was always told to mock #socialism as a form of utopianism, as if that was a bad thing. #Utopianism was never a belief that something would happen, or that anything would be perfect. It was a thought experiment to consider what a perfect outcome would look like, so we could implement the ideas and get as close as possible. Meanwhile, #capitalism , #conservatism , #liberalism , and #libertarianism are just as #utopian in their dreams. Capitalism and libertarianism believe that if we JUST get government out of the way, we could have the #freemarkets work the way they are supposed to and lead to prosperity for all, never mind that corporations only exist because of #bankruptcy laws and standards created by Congress. Modern conservatism believes that if we just went back to a specific, unspecified time point when religion ruled, we would have prosperity again, never mind that America was never like that, even when we were at our most religious. #Liberals believe that if freedom, equality, and equity are guaranteed, but with a true free market that does require governments to regulate it, we would have true prosperity. The only difference is that #Marx , using arguments by #AdamSmith himself, poked holes in all of these ideas at their core. That the structure itself needed an overhaul of who holds power, or at least patched with a strong welfare state, and to work toward that utopian dream where the people held the power instead of the lords or #oligarchs and everyone was a lawmaker with direct democracy, there was a return of #thecommons that was just the norm for most of human history, and #personalproperty was something you physically used, erned and worked instead of from trading, hoarding and wasting while people starved aka #privateproperty . The day the lords stole the commons from the people was the day that socialism started to exist, with the Diggers and the Levelers attempting to take on the power of the lords and realizing they already ran their own villages, or communes and affairs in their areas, and the lords were just a middleman that contributed little to nothing. Hence the term #communism , which is a return to the natural commons people like #John Locke and #Voltaire and other #Enlightenment thinkers idealized, but capitalism has brainwashed people to ignore, forget, or never know in the first place they believed this while we were told to look up to them. Utopianism gives us the power to dream, to coalesce our ideas and our ideals. When we were told not to dream of our ideal world but were told to dream of their ideal, that's when the dream died and we just all became doomers. -
Growing up, I was always told to mock #socialism as a form of utopianism, as if that was a bad thing. #Utopianism was never a belief that something would happen, or that anything would be perfect. It was a thought experiment to consider what a perfect outcome would look like, so we could implement the ideas and get as close as possible. Meanwhile, #capitalism , #conservatism , #liberalism , and #libertarianism are just as #utopian in their dreams. Capitalism and libertarianism believe that if we JUST get government out of the way, we could have the #freemarkets work the way they are supposed to and lead to prosperity for all, never mind that corporations only exist because of #bankruptcy laws and standards created by Congress. Modern conservatism believes that if we just went back to a specific, unspecified time point when religion ruled, we would have prosperity again, never mind that America was never like that, even when we were at our most religious. #Liberals believe that if freedom, equality, and equity are guaranteed, but with a true free market that does require governments to regulate it, we would have true prosperity. The only difference is that #Marx , using arguments by #AdamSmith himself, poked holes in all of these ideas at their core. That the structure itself needed an overhaul of who holds power, or at least patched with a strong welfare state, and to work toward that utopian dream where the people held the power instead of the lords or #oligarchs and everyone was a lawmaker with direct democracy, there was a return of #thecommons that was just the norm for most of human history, and #personalproperty was something you physically used, erned and worked instead of from trading, hoarding and wasting while people starved aka #privateproperty . The day the lords stole the commons from the people was the day that socialism started to exist, with the Diggers and the Levelers attempting to take on the power of the lords and realizing they already ran their own villages, or communes and affairs in their areas, and the lords were just a middleman that contributed little to nothing. Hence the term #communism , which is a return to the natural commons people like #John Locke and #Voltaire and other #Enlightenment thinkers idealized, but capitalism has brainwashed people to ignore, forget, or never know in the first place they believed this while we were told to look up to them. Utopianism gives us the power to dream, to coalesce our ideas and our ideals. When we were told not to dream of our ideal world but were told to dream of their ideal, that's when the dream died and we just all became doomers. -
"Things always get better" yeah kind of but it took a thousand fucking years for ~safe travel and trade to return to Europe after the fall of the western Roman Empire.
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"Things always get better" yeah kind of but it took a thousand fucking years for ~safe travel and trade to return to Europe after the fall of the western Roman Empire.
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"Things always get better" yeah kind of but it took a thousand fucking years for ~safe travel and trade to return to Europe after the fall of the western Roman Empire.
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Geoff Russ: Canada's weak classical liberal foundations
https://www.withoutdiminishment.com/p/geoff-russ-canadas-weak-classically-liberal-foundations#CanPol #cdnpoli
#liberalism #libertarianism
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Geoff Russ: Canada's weak classical liberal foundations
https://www.withoutdiminishment.com/p/geoff-russ-canadas-weak-classically-liberal-foundations#CanPol #cdnpoli
#liberalism #libertarianism
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Geoff Russ: Canada's weak classical liberal foundations
https://www.withoutdiminishment.com/p/geoff-russ-canadas-weak-classically-liberal-foundations#CanPol #cdnpoli
#liberalism #libertarianism
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Geoff Russ: Canada's weak classical liberal foundations
https://www.withoutdiminishment.com/p/geoff-russ-canadas-weak-classically-liberal-foundations#CanPol #cdnpoli
#liberalism #libertarianism
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Geoff Russ: Canada's weak classical liberal foundations
https://www.withoutdiminishment.com/p/geoff-russ-canadas-weak-classically-liberal-foundations#CanPol #cdnpoli
#liberalism #libertarianism
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I wish Mill had been aware of and engaged with the arguments of his London contemporary Karl Marx.
In fact, I wish they had met over a series of evenings to debate the foundations of political economy.
Wouldn't that dialogue, had it ever taken place, still be a continuing feast for all of us on the left?
#JohnStuartMill #KarlMarx #PoliticalThought #Economics #PoliticlEconomy #Marxism #Liberalism #Socialism #Philosphy #History #Counterfactual
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I wish Mill had been aware of and engaged with the arguments of his London contemporary Karl Marx.
In fact, I wish they had met over a series of evenings to debate the foundations of political economy.
Wouldn't that dialogue, had it ever taken place, still be a continuing feast for all of us on the left?
#JohnStuartMill #KarlMarx #PoliticalThought #Economics #PoliticlEconomy #Marxism #Liberalism #Socialism #Philosphy #History #Counterfactual
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I wish Mill had been aware of and engaged with the arguments of his London contemporary Karl Marx.
In fact, I wish they had met over a series of evenings to debate the foundations of political economy.
Wouldn't that dialogue, had it ever taken place, still be a continuing feast for all of us on the left?
#JohnStuartMill #KarlMarx #PoliticalThought #Economics #PoliticlEconomy #Marxism #Liberalism #Socialism #Philosphy #History #Counterfactual
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I wish Mill had been aware of and engaged with the arguments of his London contemporary Karl Marx.
In fact, I wish they had met over a series of evenings to debate the foundations of political economy.
Wouldn't that dialogue, had it ever taken place, still be a continuing feast for all of us on the left?
#JohnStuartMill #KarlMarx #PoliticalThought #Economics #PoliticlEconomy #Marxism #Liberalism #Socialism #Philosphy #History #Counterfactual
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I wish Mill had been aware of and engaged with the arguments of his London contemporary Karl Marx.
In fact, I wish they had met over a series of evenings to debate the foundations of political economy.
Wouldn't that dialogue, had it ever taken place, still be a continuing feast for all of us on the left?
#JohnStuartMill #KarlMarx #PoliticalThought #Economics #PoliticlEconomy #Marxism #Liberalism #Socialism #Philosphy #History #Counterfactual
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Richard Reeves -- John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand
Although the author was not an academic philosopher or historian but a journalist, his 2007 biography of Mill will not only serve as an excellent introduction to Mill and his work for those unfamiliar with this seminal liberal thinker but will also illuminate the philosopher's historical context for those mainly accustomed to examining his philosophical arguments.
Reeves stresses the importance of seeing Mill as a passionately engaged public intellectual and is concerned to dispel the myth of Mill as a dessicated humourless, purely cerebral intellectual.In addition to providing a more accurate representation of Mill's character, the demythologization that Reeves offers can also add to rebuttals of those continual conservative claims that reformers and radicals are bloodless "sophisters, economists, and calculators".*
In fact, as Reeves points out, conservative thinkers such as Carlyle and Coleridge exercised a significant influence on Mill's thought. Operating in conjunction with his Wordworth catalyzed opening to the poetic sensibility, these thinkers helped Mill escape the narrow confines of Benthamite thought. Yet Mill never became a conservative himself, even if some of his beliefs regarding capital punishment, the secret ballot, or universal suffrage might strike today's reader as such.
Mill's continuing commitment to progressive reform might best be seen in his commitment to feminism, a commitment unusual for his time, which deepened over the course of his life, and which will still grate with many conservatives today, not merely the incels and inmates of the manosphere. Reeves argues that his thinking on these matters was much his own as that of his beloved wife, Harriet. To what extent this is true must be debateable.
The most enduring part of Mill's intellectual legacy must be , as Reeves puts it, a " clearly and repeatedly articulated vision of a flourishing human
life―self-improving, passionate, truth-seeking, engaged and colourful―which it
was the job of individuals to cultivate, and the duty of society to promote". This characterization of Mill's core commitments should remind us, as his biographer points out, that "On Liberty" is as much concerned with the threats to autonomy posed by conformity and dogma as those from the excesses of government."On Liberty" still provides much to argue with and argue about. In spite of Mill's own reservations about democracy, it's a text that can play a valauble role in discussions about the ethos of democracy, or democracy as a way of life.
Although Reeves does mention Mill's work for the East India company, this aspect of his life deserves deeper research and more attention, even though Mill himself dismissed this work as being of no significance in his intellectual development.
Th biography reads easily without being simplistic, even if many of Mill's arguments are not analyzed with the thoroughness of professional philosophers. All the same, one might wish that many of those scholars would try harder to match their analytical rigor with a Reevesian readability!
* "But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever." Edmund Burke, "Reflections on the Revolution in France".
#Books #JohnStuartMill #RichardReeves #Biography #History #Philosophy #Liberalism
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Richard Reeves -- John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand
Although the author was not an academic philosopher or historian but a journalist, his 2007 biography of Mill will not only serve as an excellent introduction to Mill and his work for those unfamiliar with this seminal liberal thinker but will also illuminate the philosopher's historical context for those mainly accustomed to examining his philosophical arguments.
Reeves stresses the importance of seeing Mill as a passionately engaged public intellectual and is concerned to dispel the myth of Mill as a dessicated humourless, purely cerebral intellectual.In addition to providing a more accurate representation of Mill's character, the demythologization that Reeves offers can also add to rebuttals of those continual conservative claims that reformers and radicals are bloodless "sophisters, economists, and calculators".*
In fact, as Reeves points out, conservative thinkers such as Carlyle and Coleridge exercised a significant influence on Mill's thought. Operating in conjunction with his Wordworth catalyzed opening to the poetic sensibility, these thinkers helped Mill escape the narrow confines of Benthamite thought. Yet Mill never became a conservative himself, even if some of his beliefs regarding capital punishment, the secret ballot, or universal suffrage might strike today's reader as such.
Mill's continuing commitment to progressive reform might best be seen in his commitment to feminism, a commitment unusual for his time, which deepened over the course of his life, and which will still grate with many conservatives today, not merely the incels and inmates of the manosphere. Reeves argues that his thinking on these matters was much his own as that of his beloved wife, Harriet. To what extent this is true must be debateable.
The most enduring part of Mill's intellectual legacy must be , as Reeves puts it, a " clearly and repeatedly articulated vision of a flourishing human
life―self-improving, passionate, truth-seeking, engaged and colourful―which it
was the job of individuals to cultivate, and the duty of society to promote". This characterization of Mill's core commitments should remind us, as his biographer points out, that "On Liberty" is as much concerned with the threats to autonomy posed by conformity and dogma as those from the excesses of government."On Liberty" still provides much to argue with and argue about. In spite of Mill's own reservations about democracy, it's a text that can play a valauble role in discussions about the ethos of democracy, or democracy as a way of life.
Although Reeves does mention Mill's work for the East India company, this aspect of his life deserves deeper research and more attention, even though Mill himself dismissed this work as being of no significance in his intellectual development.
Th biography reads easily without being simplistic, even if many of Mill's arguments are not analyzed with the thoroughness of professional philosophers. All the same, one might wish that many of those scholars would try harder to match their analytical rigor with a Reevesian readability!
* "But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever." Edmund Burke, "Reflections on the Revolution in France".
#Books #JohnStuartMill #RichardReeves #Biography #History #Philosophy #Liberalism
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Richard Reeves -- John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand
Although the author was not an academic philosopher or historian but a journalist, his 2007 biography of Mill will not only serve as an excellent introduction to Mill and his work for those unfamiliar with this seminal liberal thinker but will also illuminate the philosopher's historical context for those mainly accustomed to examining his philosophical arguments.
Reeves stresses the importance of seeing Mill as a passionately engaged public intellectual and is concerned to dispel the myth of Mill as a dessicated humourless, purely cerebral intellectual.In addition to providing a more accurate representation of Mill's character, the demythologization that Reeves offers can also add to rebuttals of those continual conservative claims that reformers and radicals are bloodless "sophisters, economists, and calculators".*
In fact, as Reeves points out, conservative thinkers such as Carlyle and Coleridge exercised a significant influence on Mill's thought. Operating in conjunction with his Wordworth catalyzed opening to the poetic sensibility, these thinkers helped Mill escape the narrow confines of Benthamite thought. Yet Mill never became a conservative himself, even if some of his beliefs regarding capital punishment, the secret ballot, or universal suffrage might strike today's reader as such.
Mill's continuing commitment to progressive reform might best be seen in his commitment to feminism, a commitment unusual for his time, which deepened over the course of his life, and which will still grate with many conservatives today, not merely the incels and inmates of the manosphere. Reeves argues that his thinking on these matters was much his own as that of his beloved wife, Harriet. To what extent this is true must be debateable.
The most enduring part of Mill's intellectual legacy must be , as Reeves puts it, a " clearly and repeatedly articulated vision of a flourishing human
life―self-improving, passionate, truth-seeking, engaged and colourful―which it
was the job of individuals to cultivate, and the duty of society to promote". This characterization of Mill's core commitments should remind us, as his biographer points out, that "On Liberty" is as much concerned with the threats to autonomy posed by conformity and dogma as those from the excesses of government."On Liberty" still provides much to argue with and argue about. In spite of Mill's own reservations about democracy, it's a text that can play a valauble role in discussions about the ethos of democracy, or democracy as a way of life.
Although Reeves does mention Mill's work for the East India company, this aspect of his life deserves deeper research and more attention, even though Mill himself dismissed this work as being of no significance in his intellectual development.
Th biography reads easily without being simplistic, even if many of Mill's arguments are not analyzed with the thoroughness of professional philosophers. All the same, one might wish that many of those scholars would try harder to match their analytical rigor with a Reevesian readability!
* "But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever." Edmund Burke, "Reflections on the Revolution in France".
#Books #JohnStuartMill #RichardReeves #Biography #History #Philosophy #Liberalism
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Richard Reeves -- John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand
Although the author was not an academic philosopher or historian but a journalist, his 2007 biography of Mill will not only serve as an excellent introduction to Mill and his work for those unfamiliar with this seminal liberal thinker but will also illuminate the philosopher's historical context for those mainly accustomed to examining his philosophical arguments.
Reeves stresses the importance of seeing Mill as a passionately engaged public intellectual and is concerned to dispel the myth of Mill as a dessicated humourless, purely cerebral intellectual.In addition to providing a more accurate representation of Mill's character, the demythologization that Reeves offers can also add to rebuttals of those continual conservative claims that reformers and radicals are bloodless "sophisters, economists, and calculators".*
In fact, as Reeves points out, conservative thinkers such as Carlyle and Coleridge exercised a significant influence on Mill's thought. Operating in conjunction with his Wordworth catalyzed opening to the poetic sensibility, these thinkers helped Mill escape the narrow confines of Benthamite thought. Yet Mill never became a conservative himself, even if some of his beliefs regarding capital punishment, the secret ballot, or universal suffrage might strike today's reader as such.
Mill's continuing commitment to progressive reform might best be seen in his commitment to feminism, a commitment unusual for his time, which deepened over the course of his life, and which will still grate with many conservatives today, not merely the incels and inmates of the manosphere. Reeves argues that his thinking on these matters was much his own as that of his beloved wife, Harriet. To what extent this is true must be debateable.
The most enduring part of Mill's intellectual legacy must be , as Reeves puts it, a " clearly and repeatedly articulated vision of a flourishing human
life―self-improving, passionate, truth-seeking, engaged and colourful―which it
was the job of individuals to cultivate, and the duty of society to promote". This characterization of Mill's core commitments should remind us, as his biographer points out, that "On Liberty" is as much concerned with the threats to autonomy posed by conformity and dogma as those from the excesses of government."On Liberty" still provides much to argue with and argue about. In spite of Mill's own reservations about democracy, it's a text that can play a valauble role in discussions about the ethos of democracy, or democracy as a way of life.
Although Reeves does mention Mill's work for the East India company, this aspect of his life deserves deeper research and more attention, even though Mill himself dismissed this work as being of no significance in his intellectual development.
Th biography reads easily without being simplistic, even if many of Mill's arguments are not analyzed with the thoroughness of professional philosophers. All the same, one might wish that many of those scholars would try harder to match their analytical rigor with a Reevesian readability!
* "But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever." Edmund Burke, "Reflections on the Revolution in France".
#Books #JohnStuartMill #RichardReeves #Biography #History #Philosophy #Liberalism
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Richard Reeves -- John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand
Although the author was not an academic philosopher or historian but a journalist, his 2007 biography of Mill will not only serve as an excellent introduction to Mill and his work for those unfamiliar with this seminal liberal thinker but will also illuminate the philosopher's historical context for those mainly accustomed to examining his philosophical arguments.
Reeves stresses the importance of seeing Mill as a passionately engaged public intellectual and is concerned to dispel the myth of Mill as a dessicated humourless, purely cerebral intellectual.In addition to providing a more accurate representation of Mill's character, the demythologization that Reeves offers can also add to rebuttals of those continual conservative claims that reformers and radicals are bloodless "sophisters, economists, and calculators".*
In fact, as Reeves points out, conservative thinkers such as Carlyle and Coleridge exercised a significant influence on Mill's thought. Operating in conjunction with his Wordworth catalyzed opening to the poetic sensibility, these thinkers helped Mill escape the narrow confines of Benthamite thought. Yet Mill never became a conservative himself, even if some of his beliefs regarding capital punishment, the secret ballot, or universal suffrage might strike today's reader as such.
Mill's continuing commitment to progressive reform might best be seen in his commitment to feminism, a commitment unusual for his time, which deepened over the course of his life, and which will still grate with many conservatives today, not merely the incels and inmates of the manosphere. Reeves argues that his thinking on these matters was much his own as that of his beloved wife, Harriet. To what extent this is true must be debateable.
The most enduring part of Mill's intellectual legacy must be , as Reeves puts it, a " clearly and repeatedly articulated vision of a flourishing human
life―self-improving, passionate, truth-seeking, engaged and colourful―which it
was the job of individuals to cultivate, and the duty of society to promote". This characterization of Mill's core commitments should remind us, as his biographer points out, that "On Liberty" is as much concerned with the threats to autonomy posed by conformity and dogma as those from the excesses of government."On Liberty" still provides much to argue with and argue about. In spite of Mill's own reservations about democracy, it's a text that can play a valauble role in discussions about the ethos of democracy, or democracy as a way of life.
Although Reeves does mention Mill's work for the East India company, this aspect of his life deserves deeper research and more attention, even though Mill himself dismissed this work as being of no significance in his intellectual development.
Th biography reads easily without being simplistic, even if many of Mill's arguments are not analyzed with the thoroughness of professional philosophers. All the same, one might wish that many of those scholars would try harder to match their analytical rigor with a Reevesian readability!
* "But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever." Edmund Burke, "Reflections on the Revolution in France".
#Books #JohnStuartMill #RichardReeves #Biography #History #Philosophy #Liberalism
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https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/all-you-fascist-liberals
I enjoyed this article about #fascism and #liberalism - fleshes out the old problems of liberals being handmaidens of fascism in a contemporary context. I don't always agree with #zizek BUT I do think he's one of the better diagnosticians for liberalism.
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https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/all-you-fascist-liberals
I enjoyed this article about #fascism and #liberalism - fleshes out the old problems of liberals being handmaidens of fascism in a contemporary context. I don't always agree with #zizek BUT I do think he's one of the better diagnosticians for liberalism.
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https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/all-you-fascist-liberals
I enjoyed this article about #fascism and #liberalism - fleshes out the old problems of liberals being handmaidens of fascism in a contemporary context. I don't always agree with #zizek BUT I do think he's one of the better diagnosticians for liberalism.
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https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/all-you-fascist-liberals
I enjoyed this article about #fascism and #liberalism - fleshes out the old problems of liberals being handmaidens of fascism in a contemporary context. I don't always agree with #zizek BUT I do think he's one of the better diagnosticians for liberalism.
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https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/all-you-fascist-liberals
I enjoyed this article about #fascism and #liberalism - fleshes out the old problems of liberals being handmaidens of fascism in a contemporary context. I don't always agree with #zizek BUT I do think he's one of the better diagnosticians for liberalism.
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https://www.europesays.com/people/175656/ Post-Liberalism: How It Happened and What Next? #demography #europe #History #Hungary #ideology #illiberalism #KajaKallas #liberalism #liberty #modernization #PoliticalFreedom #Politics #PostLiberalism #Prosperity #RegimeChange #SocialConstruction #socialism #sovereignty #WesternEurope
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CW: Graphic descriptions of bodily mutilation.
This story and that of Marius Gustavson (linked in the article) engaged my interest because I have read very little about the sexual preferences and practices described. I find them more than a little off-putting.
Nevertheless, beyond the sensationalistic interest, the articles did get me thinking.
I am aware of this equation:
My Thing That I Really Like = Your Fetish = Their Weird Fixation.
Yet in addition to the standard liberal thoughts about the harm principle, the licitness or otherwise of paternalism, informed consent and so on, I also found myself wondering about the propriety of terms like "disgust" and "perversion".
I still have not sorted my thoughts out.
#NeilHopper #MariusGustavson #BodyModification #Amputation #SexualPreference #Sex #Liberalism #harm #Consent #Disgust #Perversion #Apotemnophilia #BodyIntegrityDisorder
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CW: Graphic descriptions of bodily mutilation.
This story and that of Marius Gustavson (linked in the article) engaged my interest because I have read very little about the sexual preferences and practices described. I find them more than a little off-putting.
Nevertheless, beyond the sensationalistic interest, the articles did get me thinking.
I am aware of this equation:
My Thing That I Really Like = Your Fetish = Their Weird Fixation.
Yet in addition to the standard liberal thoughts about the harm principle, the licitness or otherwise of paternalism, informed consent and so on, I also found myself wondering about the propriety of terms like "disgust" and "perversion".
I still have not sorted my thoughts out.
#NeilHopper #MariusGustavson #BodyModification #Amputation #SexualPreference #Sex #Liberalism #harm #Consent #Disgust #Perversion #Apotemnophilia #BodyIntegrityDisorder
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CW: Graphic descriptions of bodily mutilation.
This story and that of Marius Gustavson (linked in the article) engaged my interest because I have read very little about the sexual preferences and practices described. I find them more than a little off-putting.
Nevertheless, beyond the sensationalistic interest, the articles did get me thinking.
I am aware of this equation:
My Thing That I Really Like = Your Fetish = Their Weird Fixation.
Yet in addition to the standard liberal thoughts about the harm principle, the licitness or otherwise of paternalism, informed consent and so on, I also found myself wondering about the propriety of terms like "disgust" and "perversion".
I still have not sorted my thoughts out.
#NeilHopper #MariusGustavson #BodyModification #Amputation #SexualPreference #Sex #Liberalism #harm #Consent #Disgust #Perversion #Apotemnophilia #BodyIntegrityDisorder
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CW: Graphic descriptions of bodily mutilation.
This story and that of Marius Gustavson (linked in the article) engaged my interest because I have read very little about the sexual preferences and practices described. I find them more than a little off-putting.
Nevertheless, beyond the sensationalistic interest, the articles did get me thinking.
I am aware of this equation:
My Thing That I Really Like = Your Fetish = Their Weird Fixation.
Yet in addition to the standard liberal thoughts about the harm principle, the licitness or otherwise of paternalism, informed consent and so on, I also found myself wondering about the propriety of terms like "disgust" and "perversion".
I still have not sorted my thoughts out.
#NeilHopper #MariusGustavson #BodyModification #Amputation #SexualPreference #Sex #Liberalism #harm #Consent #Disgust #Perversion #Apotemnophilia #BodyIntegrityDisorder
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CW: Graphic descriptions of bodily mutilation.
This story and that of Marius Gustavson (linked in the article) engaged my interest because I have read very little about the sexual preferences and practices described. I find them more than a little off-putting.
Nevertheless, beyond the sensationalistic interest, the articles did get me thinking.
I am aware of this equation:
My Thing That I Really Like = Your Fetish = Their Weird Fixation.
Yet in addition to the standard liberal thoughts about the harm principle, the licitness or otherwise of paternalism, informed consent and so on, I also found myself wondering about the propriety of terms like "disgust" and "perversion".
I still have not sorted my thoughts out.
#NeilHopper #MariusGustavson #BodyModification #Amputation #SexualPreference #Sex #Liberalism #harm #Consent #Disgust #Perversion #Apotemnophilia #BodyIntegrityDisorder
