“In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born.” WorldHas BeensHumanityCultureIndividualSocialBornDemocracyFireProjectsDivisionPrisonerHierarchyPuppetsEmancipationSocial Division Author:Roberto Unger
“There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.” ValuesCultureDenyArroganceSelf ControlImperialismHierarchy Book:And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America Source: And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America
“A crucial difference between lite libertarians and the right kind is that to the former, the idea of liberty is propositional - a deracinated principle, unmoored from the realities of history, hierarchy, biology, tradition, culture, values. Conversely, the paleolibertarian grasps that ordered liberty has a civilizational dimension, stripped of which the libertarian non-aggression axiom, by which we all must live, cannot endure.” KindIdeasRealityValuesCultureDifferencesLibertyPrinciplesTraditionEndureLibertarianFormerDimensionsBiologyCrucialAggressionHierarchyAxioms Author:Ilana Mercer