11 ideas
20239 | Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche] |
22594 | In 1794 France all individual and legal rights were suppressed by the general will [Dunt] |
22602 | Over several centuries a set of eight main liberal values was established [Dunt] |
22808 | Liberalism is minimal government, or individual rights, or equality [Avineri/De-Shalit] |
22596 | No government, or the whole nation, can control an individual beyond legitimate scope [Dunt] |
22803 | Can individualist theories justify an obligation to fight in a war? [Avineri/De-Shalit] |
22603 | Laissez-faire liberalism failed to give people the protections and freedoms needed for a good life [Dunt] |
22804 | Autonomy is better achieved within a community [Avineri/De-Shalit] |
22806 | Communitarians avoid oppression for the common good, by means of small mediating communities [Avineri/De-Shalit] |
22807 | If our values are given to us by society then we have no grounds to criticise them [Avineri/De-Shalit] |
22592 | Nationalism pretends that we can only have a single identity [Dunt] |