tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345275.post111569417223256707..comments2023-10-30T11:13:44.310-04:00Comments on The Ethical Werewolf ‡ by Neil Sinhababu : 31 flavors of sweet liberalismUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345275.post-1119653930870243152005-06-24T18:58:00.000-04:002005-06-24T18:58:00.000-04:00O to do the 2^n versions of X thing! You'd get so...O to do the 2^n versions of X thing! You'd get some fun stuff -- sexually nonconformist Rawlsians, black Utilitarians, enviro-Marxists... there are already ecofeminists, as I understand it. <BR/><BR/>Yeah, Nozick and libertarians draw lots of inspiration from Locke. Liz Anderson had some posts a while back dissing the libertarian interpretation of Locke. I don't know who's right on this one.Neil Sinhababuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15672033745772751532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345275.post-1115856031247418652005-05-11T20:00:00.000-04:002005-05-11T20:00:00.000-04:00Julian, I was talking about "liberalism" in the se...Julian, I was talking about "liberalism" in the sense that it appears in contemporary US political talk, because I think that's the sense in which Ezra was asking about it. I'm familiar with the sense of "liberal" you're talking about, and I agree that that's a fairly coherent ideology.Neil Sinhababuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15672033745772751532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345275.post-1115830504133603602005-05-11T12:55:00.000-04:002005-05-11T12:55:00.000-04:00Well, I think you're conflating too many left-cent...Well, I think you're conflating too many left-center and Democratic Party-affiliated ideologies with "liberalism." If you took all right-center ideologies and ideological affiliates of the Republican party and called them "conservatism," you wouldn't get much of a coherent ideology either. I think that liberalism DOES have an intellectual heritage that, if not coherent, is as coherent as conservatism: Locke, Condorcet, Mill, Berlin, Rawls. We get sidetracked because there are people who voted for Kerry who were other things, like non-liberal environmentalists, or non-liberal social democrats, but that shouldn't confuse us in thinking about liberalism per se.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345275.post-1115749232490825852005-05-10T14:20:00.000-04:002005-05-10T14:20:00.000-04:00I'm bemused by how many "get you from both ways" a...I'm bemused by how many "get you from both ways" attacks Republican spin machines use. A dumber, more confident president is better, and academics is decadent and irrelevant. Oh, also we have true intellectual discussions about the nature of policy, not like you dumbags!<BR/><BR/>Anyway, the fratboy did beat the egghead, and governs in a manner with no reference to a consistent ideology. Which means one of two things. His party is not the party of intellectual policies, or the intellectualism of its discussions have no effect on its policy. Either of which kinda makes this whole path of "who has more discussion about their ideas" irrelevant and futile.<BR/><BR/>(Lastly, political posturing about the vibrancy of academic debate outside the institutionally-objective world of ahrd science, has fatal flaws. When you just discard all your opponent's views as "silly" with no further reference, of course the only debate that is going on is among those you find palatable. Witness, economics.)Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14667147687700902147noreply@blogger.com