Liberalism, asserts that there are general but substantial moral truths, universally applicable, on which liberalism’s claim to deliver the human good is founded
But there is a haziness about their certitudes, human good, unless we rely on Biblical allusion is a hazy notion. And , for moral is relativistic word, it makes sense only when aligned against immoral. Moral is also a value term, so we end up with the inevitable liberal haziness. Liberals have a
certitude that they stand atop that metaphor 'the moral high ground'
Does the liberal mind-set make one worship at the tomb of the unknown principle.
We could argue that liberalism as a poor substitute for the real thing. Witness the chameleonic
Ed Miliband's crocodile tears in the |House of Commons when raising the issue of Syria. After he had opportunistically voted down proposed action in a recent vote.
But there is a haziness about their certitudes, human good, unless we rely on Biblical allusion is a hazy notion. And , for moral is relativistic word, it makes sense only when aligned against immoral. Moral is also a value term, so we end up with the inevitable liberal haziness. Liberals have a
certitude that they stand atop that metaphor 'the moral high ground'
Does the liberal mind-set make one worship at the tomb of the unknown principle.
We could argue that liberalism as a poor substitute for the real thing. Witness the chameleonic
Ed Miliband's crocodile tears in the |House of Commons when raising the issue of Syria. After he had opportunistically voted down proposed action in a recent vote.
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