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Vladimir Dorta's avatar

I recently began reading TAP. I would recommend your writers to pay attention to Simone Weil's arguments about the primacy of duties over rights in her book L'enracinement (there is a translation, The Need for Roots). This is the only way to ground postliberalism on first principles, IMHO.

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Blake's avatar

I think you can more easily ground postliberalism on first principles by looking to great Western thinkers, from Plato to Aquinas.

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Vladimir Dorta's avatar

Yes, of course, but that's too general and many thinkers never stopped doing that. We need a unifying principle to bring down the entire Enlightenment scaffolding, built upon the inventions, the fabrications, of natural rights and the state of nature.

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Blake's avatar

I'm with you there. We definitely need to refresh these timeless principles in a modern context.

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