The Dilemma of Liberalism
- Liberalism's primal act of imagination whereby it established its essence and existence in the enhanced sense of freedom consequent upon the Humean principle that the aberrations in nature are ever so conformable to reality as its apparent intentions issued in anomy and other direction. This condition is overcome by the profounder insight that by the law that reduces the material and mental spheres to a common denominator the aberrations in nature become the examplar for freedom in the world of culture and civilization. The way to autonomy must lie, as Marx received, in destroying all the >intentions of nature,< the >forms and products of consciousness< represented by pure theory, theology, philosophy, ethics, etc. These are the presuppositions of Riesman's >Tradition directed< and >inner directed< societies and FROMM's authoritarian ethics – >religion, the family, state, laws, morals, science, spirit, etc.< These are the indefectible principles and natural associations and they are not the facts in accord with which we must live in a people's democracy. But they are precisely the things upon which, in the classical tradition of the West all free government has depended.
MetadatenAuthor: | Charles N. R. McCoy |
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Parent Title (English): | Laval Theologique et Philosophique, Quebec, Vol. 16 (1960), pp. 9-19. |
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Document Type: | Articles |
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Language: | English |
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Year of first Publication: | 1960 |
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Release Date: | 2014/01/28 |
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Format: | PDF-scan to download |
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IdNo: | McCoy_Ch_N_R_1960 |
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Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature): | Articles / Artikel |
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Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive: | Articles / Artikel |
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