An Intellectual History of Liberalism Fruits recounting the pursuit of mystic

recounting the pursuit of mystic knowledge throughout the Mediterranean world in the reign of the emperor Hadrian

they watched as anti-war protesters turned on the troops themselves

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An Intellectual History of Liberalism Fruits recounting the pursuit of mysticHighlighting the social tensions that confront the liberal tradition, Pierre Manent draws a portrait of what we, citizens of modern liberal democracies, have become. For Manent, a discussion of liberalism encompasses the foundations of modern society, its secularism, its individualism, and its conception of rights. The frequent incapacity of the morally neutral, democratic state to further social causes, he argues, derives from the liberal stance that