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Matthew Lowery
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All this is very true: talents inferior to those of Gaius and Titius would have sufficed to discover it.
“When Spinoza says that we do not even know what a body can do, this is practically a war cry. He adds that we speak of consciousness, mind, soul, of the power of the soul over the body; we chatter away about these things, but do not even know what bodies can do. Moral chattering replaces true philosophy”
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“Advanced liberalism is eliminating liberal education with keen intent and ferocity, finding it impractical both ideologically and economically.”
― Why Liberalism Failed
― Why Liberalism Failed
“Ironically, but perhaps not coincidentally, the political project of liberalism is shaping us into the creatures of its prehistorical fantasy, which in fact required the combined massive apparatus of the modern state, economy, education system, and science and technology to make us into: increasingly separate, nonrelational selves replete with rights and defined by our liberty, but insecure, powerless, afraid, and alone.”
― Why Liberalism Failed
― Why Liberalism Failed
“Individualism and statism advance together, always mutually supportive, and always at the expense of lived and vital relations that stand in contrast to both the starkness of the autonomous individual and the abstraction of our membership in the state.”
― Why Liberalism Failed
― Why Liberalism Failed
“One of the main goals of the expansion of commerce is the liberation of embedded individuals from their traditional ties and relationships. The liberal state serves not only the reactive function of umpire and protector of individual liberty; it also takes on an active role 'liberating' individuals who, in the view of the state, are prevented from making wholly free choices as liberal agents.”
― Why Liberalism Failed
― Why Liberalism Failed
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