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 @HPluckrose
I think so, yes. Esp. around tin 17th century Britain.
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Replying to @GEdwardsTwit
Absolutely. This was led by puritans tho, rather than liberals. Not that keen on individuality.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @GEdwardsTwit
Well, I think they were, tbh, but they didn't think they were.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Liberalism does seem to be rooted historically in arbitration between monarchy vs. landowners/merchants, and Church vs. Nonconformists.
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Replying to @GEdwardsTwit @HPluckrose
But dont get me wrong though. The liberal idea of a free private conscience still seems sound to me.
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Replying to @GEdwardsTwit @HPluckrose
Indeed that's what I'd defend against SJW and ALT-right alike.
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I'm reading 'liberalism', the history of an idea right now. So often we're talking about different things.
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