Difference between revisions of "Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom"
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− | {{DES | des = "Intermediate groups -- voluntary associations, churches, ethnocultural groups, universities, and more -- can both protect and threaten individual liberty. The same is true for centralized state action against such groups... liberal political thought rests on a deep tension between a rationalist suspicion of intermediate and local group power, and a pluralism favorable toward intermediate group life, and preserving the bulk of its suspicion for the centralizing state. | show=}} | + | {{DES | des = "Intermediate groups -- voluntary associations, churches, ethnocultural groups, universities, and more -- can both protect and threaten individual liberty. The same is true for centralized state action against such groups... liberal political thought rests on a deep tension between a rationalist suspicion of intermediate and local group power, and a pluralism favorable toward intermediate group life, and preserving the bulk of its suspicion for the centralizing state." | show=}} |
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