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Lawrence of Arabia

12:10:02 pm on May 24, 2008 | # | |
Tags: liberalism, politics

toleration: the studied and practiced indifference on the part of the community to discovering a form of life that is Good, Beautiful and True
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razib 6:12 pm on May 24, 2008 | #

i really don’t know what you’re intent with that is…. (e.g., is there only one form of life that is Good, Beautiful and True. is not, what are the criteria which are used to determine those characteristics?)
Lawrence of Arabia 7:49 pm on May 24, 2008 | #

the real intent was to provide a very short answer to thabet’s question about the limits of liberalism (which i interpreted to be about political liberalism), which is that it gave up on the genuinely political questions, and turned politics into mob management.

mind you, if we had the answers already, we wouldnt be asking questions at all.
razib 8:26 pm on May 24, 2008 | #

“and turned politics into mob management.”

this is probably inevitable with universal suffrage. compare the quality of intellect of the american presidents before and after property limitations were removed.

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