http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com Informed reflection on the events of the day Wed, 15 Jul 2015 17:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.23 http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/about/the-dc-collegium/vince-carducci/comment-page-1/#comment-23810 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:38:30 +0000 http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/#comment-23810 […] Identifying contributors to my left, whom I respect, but with whom I have significant disagreements on some fundamentals, I find to be a pretty easy project. For example, as indicated in his posts and my responses to them, Vince Carducci. […]

]]> http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/about/the-dc-collegium/vince-carducci/comment-page-1/#comment-22639 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:04:22 +0000 http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/#comment-22639 […] Scott in his reply to my Iowa post ends with the assertion that we are all liberals. I assume he is referring to the legacies of 19th century liberal thought, that unites present day conservatives, i.e. free market liberals, and progressives, i.e. those who think that state interventions are necessary to assure individual opportunity, along with those who want to keep the government out of the bedroom, along with those who want to keep it out of the market. While I think Scott is making an important point, there are also many who are motivated by principles outside the liberal tradition, as I am sure he realizes. Some conservatives believe in the priority of community, tradition, religion and an inherited order. Among the Republican Presidential hopefuls, this is the emphasis of Rick Santorum. And, of course, there are those who are in principle socialist, as well. Although the self-proclaimed socialists are rare in American society at large, they are quite common in the academic world. In fact, while I am extremely skeptical that there is a systemic socialist alternative to capitalism, I do think that socialism is an important principled position within a democratic society with a modern economy, a real utopia that suggests that the way things are now is not the way they will always be. Vince Carducci has been developing this position in his posts here. […]

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