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What's The Matter With Liberalism?
Robert Beiner
During the 80's, liberalism was the popular ideal for political thought throughout Europe. The west won the cold war and Europe hailed the views of the market-oriented liberal west. It was considered to be the best idea of a society by many. Like all political views, there were and are many critics of this mindset of the superiority of liberalism. Robert Beiner, as one of these critics, elaborates his anti-liberal views by proving points through philosophical discourse. He references many recognized philosophers and mixes their theory with his own to describe why he considers liberalism to be a weightless argument.
Beiner begins by recognizing the great philosophers as literary masters. He appreciates the ability to highlight the weaknesses and strengths of society by telling a tale. The importance of truth seeking in both writing literature and philosophy seem to be a trait Beiner emphasizes. He correlates the purposes of each through their objectives in society. Philosophy "supplies clever arguments for favoring one set of policies rather than another" and writers "try to illuminate needs and desires of human life that the subjects themselves may have failed to acknowledge" (Beiner). I deduce from these definitions that a philosopher supplies his arguments by illuminating the needs and desires of humans. In other words, one may tell a great story in attempt to reveal needs and desires that justify ones support for specific policies. I find this to be the case with most great philosophers. I agree with Beiner that many great philosophers are literary artist such as Plato and his great work Republic. At the same time, Beiner reflects on some of the differences between the types of writings, literature and philosophy. He reflects upon the ability of literature to invoke the imagination while philosophy must be grounded in pure truth.
Beiner's critique of...
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