Won't 'It makes me happy without harming anyone else' do? Only thing all my freedoms & individual choices have in common.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
People who take against you will question what you mean by "me", "happy" and "harm". As they did J.S Mill. Pays to have some answers ready.
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Replying to @GEdwardsTwit
Harm, yes. That needs clarifying. I don't need arguments for being a person or justifications of what I mean by happiness.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Both the left and the right criticise the liberal conception of the person. Seeing each of us as being more situated than liberals allow.
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Replying to @GEdwardsTwit
You can think you are an immortal soul made in the image of a god, a computer simulation, a conduit for hegemonic discourses,
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Conscience as something to which we're privy, e.g our inner deliberations on right & wrong. This (& tax) seem to feature in liberal history
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Replying to @GEdwardsTwit @HPluckrose
Also, I think positing such a space is a strength of liberalism. Not a weakness
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Replying to @GEdwardsTwit
I don't think inner deliberations on right & wrong are unique to liberalism.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I dont think they're unique to liberals. But mounting a public defence of such things, in a constitution, seems particularly liberal.
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Replying to @GEdwardsTwit @HPluckrose
Also illiberalism, on left and right, seems to take ones values as being a great deal less voluntary and open to personal reflection.
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In some sense, yes. But I don't think you need to believe in a coherent self or free will to be liberal. I think Sam Harris is
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