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8. The New Enlightenment: The Abandoned Road

verfasst von : Walter B. Weimer

Erschienen in: Retrieving Liberalism from Rationalist Constructivism, Volume I

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Liberalism was never refuted. It was abandoned by constructivists because of alleged inadequacies (according to their Cartesian common sense). Doing so was abetted by two strategies: first, portraying liberalism as “nothing but” reactionary, a conservative defense of “laissez-faire” as the status quo; second, by “supplanting” it with freedom from want, utilitarian happiness, and justice as distributive. This “renascent” liberalism is actually nothing but socialism, involving the abandonment of the spontaneous market rules of order of society in favor of the equivalent of a tribal leader or dictatorship (central planning board) legislating “positive” commands to perform particular behaviors. Positive “freedoms” replace the “outmoded” negative constraints of true liberalism. “Rights” become “entitlements,” which are handouts from politicians. This chapter overviews how this retreat to primitivism occurred, and was proposed as a “scientific” improvement.

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Titel: The New Enlightenment: The Abandoned Road
verfasst von: Walter B. Weimer
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: Retrieving Liberalism from Rationalist Constructivism, Volume I
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-94857-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-94858-0

Copyright-Jahr: 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94858-0_8