Underpinning its precepts is the nice ENLIGHTENMENT metanarrative of RATIONALITY, since a society founded upon liberal ideas is the one, so it was argued, that self-interested, rational individuals would choose . It has additionally had …
A authorities, whatever be its form, is Catholic if its structure, its laws, and its politics are based on Catholic rules; it is Liberal if it bases its constitution, its laws, and its politics on rationalistic ideas. It is not…
His central argument was that the person is capable of using purpose to differentiate proper from mistaken. To be capable of exercise this proper, everyone must have unlimited access to the ideas of his fellow men …