Begun in 1938 and completed only in 1955, The Public Philosophy
offers as much a glimpse into the private philosophy of America's
premier journalist of the twentieth century as it does a public
philosophy.The basis of Lippmann's effort is "that there is a deep
disorder in our society which comes not from the machinations of
our enemies and from the adversaries of the human condition but
from within ourselves." He also provides a special sort of legacy
to liberalism in its broadest sense - as the root approach to human
existence that could provide civility and accommodation against
incivilities and extremism, and that uniquely stood against the
totalitarian counter-revolutions from Jacobism to Leninism. This
work is a masterful defense of the public philosophy as a
constitutional tradition, and can be easily read as such today.Paul
Roazen, long identified with the analysis of Lippmann's work,
points out that no matter how trenchantly Lippmann dissected
democracy, and the populist faith in the people's wisdom, he still
sought to study the world in order to help govern it. His constant
flow of journalistic writing had the educative intent of raising
the level of the public's knowledge. His rationalist conviction
that clearheadedness on public matters can be effectively relayed
to people is nowhere more evident than in The Public Philosophy. In
this sense it is an argument for the democratic ideal that people
can be rallied in defense of the public interest.
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