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Liberalism may fail because it neglects the shared nature of what we pursue and protect
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Full Idea:
I am interested in the claim that liberalism fails inasmuch as it neglects, and cannot accommodate, the fact that some or all of the goods we pursue, and which a system of rights is concerned to protect, are goods possessed in common.
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From:
John Haldane (The Individual, the State, and the Common Good [1996], III)
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A reaction:
It depends how individualistic we take liberalism to be. Extreme individualism (Nozick) strikes me as crazy. If 'we' erect a statue to some dubious politicians, it might be presented as a common good, but actually be despised by many.
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