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• 71 Hobbes and Locke Revisited: The Foundations of the Modern Liberal State, Part XII

  Hayek’s gravest error: the contrast of his brand of individualism with socialism or collectivism. It’s a totally modern conception, unheard of in Hobbes’s own time, and it displays Hayek’s modern bias.

  Opinion in Politics — by Roger Nowosielski — on Mar 24, 2012

• 70 Hobbes and Locke Revisited: The Foundations of the Modern Liberal State, Part XI

  As far as I am concerned, one’s intellectual development cannot be complete without taking full account of a reasoned, conservative viewpoint, regardless of your personal viewpoint.

  Opinion in Politics — by Roger Nowosielski — on Mar 21, 2012

• 69 Hobbes and Locke Revisited: The Foundations of the Modern Liberal State, Part X

  Liberalism isn’t a theory, in a manner of speaking. It’s a state of mind, a program by the feebleminded, all who have given up on hard thinking, an opiate.

  Opinion in Politics — by Roger Nowosielski — on Mar 19, 2012

• 68 Hobbes and Locke Revisited: The Foundations of the Modern Liberal State, Part IX

  Hobbes was the first behaviorist in a manner of speaking, a thoroughly modern man. His ultimate aim was individual survival; and his ethic, a behaviorist ethic. And we still live under the specter.

  Opinion in Politics — by Roger Nowosielski — on Mar 09, 2012

• 67 Hobbes and Locke Revisited: The Foundations of the Modern Liberal State, Part VIII

  At the bottom of the liberal theory, the one thing which provides it with its foundation, there lies a peculiar picture of a human, a human qua individual.

  Opinion in Politics — by Roger Nowosielski — on Mar 07, 2012

• 66 Hobbes and Locke Revisited: The Foundations of the Modern Liberal State, Part VII

  It is the singular achievement of the liberal theory to have successfully merged both the political and the economic aspects of being into one indistinguishable whole.

  Opinion in Politics — by Roger Nowosielski — on Mar 03, 2012

• 65 Hobbes and Locke Revisited: The Foundations of the Modern Liberal State, Part VI

  It makes all the sense in the world to contest one’s rights vis-à-vis any oppressive social or political structure; it makes no sense whatever to do so in the context of personal relations.

  Opinion in Politics — by Roger Nowosielski — on Feb 27, 2012

• 64 Hobbes and Locke Revisited: The Foundations of the Modern Liberal State, Part V

  Hobbes may have been a purist compared to Locke, but he did capture better than anyone the tenor of our times: it’s all about statism; the heart of the liberal theory!

  Opinion in Politics — by Roger Nowosielski — on Feb 25, 2012

• 63 Hobbes and Locke Revisited: The Foundations of the Modern Liberal State, Part IV

  Locke was a modern man in a manner of speaking. His cardinal mistake was to assume that macro events guaranteed likewise results in the realm of the individual.

  Opinion in Politics — by Roger Nowosielski — on Feb 21, 2012

• 62 Hobbes and Locke Revisited: The Foundations of the Modern Liberal State, Part III

  The ownership concept extended beyond one’s entitlement to the fruits of his or her labors. The initial axiom, by virtue of its self-evident quality, had come to encompass a great many other things, such as landed property and self-ownership. The seeds which were sown became a weed.

  Opinion in Politics — by Roger Nowosielski — on Feb 17, 2012