Do you really find that quoted passage ridiculous? Because Tocqueville and Pierre Manent aren't ridiculous, and neither is the notion that the nation state is the modern analogue to earlier forms of particularistic attachment.
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the natalists should demand a return to arranged marriages
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So Socratic political philosophy rests on two assumptions that constitute fields of inquiry: Pre-political psychology & regime theory. Either these hold or do not. So if asking the question of distributive justice & bringing up the problem of natural right make sense today...
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I’m with Ferdinand Mount on this.
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