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Reading an essay on Law and Liberty about Sir Roger Scruton – I’m going to have to look into his works as he seems to be grappling with the notion of how conservatism is necessary in order to keep liberalism from eating itself.
“The bonds of membership and the memories and loyalties of a self-governing people transcend what is chosen at any given moment of time or delineated in any original contract. With it comes duties to which one is honor-bound, and not just rights to do as one wills. To be sure, Scruton valued rights within their legitimate sphere. The rule of law, not soulless legalism, was a sacrosanct principle of his, and at the heart of the English liberty he loved. But he saw only a brutal diminution of both moral and political life under the new “ideology of human rights,” as he called it, a diminished understanding of “autonomy” that is shorn of moral and civic duty and hence of the mutual accountability that defines persons living in free and lawful political communities.”
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