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The Beginning of Liberalism - Reexamining the Political Philosophy of John Locke (Paperback)
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The Beginning of Liberalism - Reexamining the Political Philosophy of John Locke (Paperback)
Series: A.V. Elliott Conference Series
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The dominant public philosophy of the United States of America has
long been some version of liberalism--dedicated to individual
liberty, equal rights, religious freedom, government by consent,
and established limits on political power. Today, however, we today
find ourselves in unusual times, when the major political parties
have powerful and growing wings that embrace decidedly illiberal
public philosophies. On the Left, critical theory eschews
Enlightenment rationalism and liberal ideas of toleration and
individual liberty as structures that serve to support inequality
and oppression. On the Right, conservative scholars excoriate
liberalism for privileging an ideal of individual autonomy that
eats away at the civilizing bonds of family, tradition, religion,
and country. What seems new here is not the critiques themselves,
but the power and popularity of political movements that openly and
proudly reject the first principles of America's long-dominant
public philosophy. Can the center hold? Can the principles of 1776
survive? Or has liberalism run its course? With these questions in
the air, this book proposes to return with fresh eyes to the
beginning of liberalism and the political philosophy of John Locke.
Instead of looking at Lockean liberalism as a simple and timeworn
ideological program, the essays reexamine Locke's project by
remaining alive to the complexity and nuance with which he
addressed his subject. The Locke that emerges is indeed an
ambitious and radical thinker, but one not as imprudent or
unmindful of custom as his conservative critics would have it, nor
as tolerant of oppression as his progressive critics aver.
Contributors include Nasser Behnegar, Steven Forde, Peter
Josephson, Rita Koganzon, J. Judd Owen, Gabrielle Stanton Ray, and
Scott Yenor.
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