As a Common Good thinker, I find such rhetoric unhelpful and self-defeating. It employs liberal tropes that lump different position into a category that your own position generates but distorts the differences. Good dialogue requires the ability to understand others in their own terms. As the descendent of the French Revolution, it is hard to take liberalism’s critique of authoritarian positions seriously. It was Rousseau that argued that sometimes you have to force people to be free.
Brilliant. LFG!!!!
As a Common Good thinker, I find such rhetoric unhelpful and self-defeating. It employs liberal tropes that lump different position into a category that your own position generates but distorts the differences. Good dialogue requires the ability to understand others in their own terms. As the descendent of the French Revolution, it is hard to take liberalism’s critique of authoritarian positions seriously. It was Rousseau that argued that sometimes you have to force people to be free.