Thursday, August 11, 2022

The "pure relationship"

"There are few signs of contemporary liberalism disappearing from the human scene.  Even after decades of the most prominent contemporary liberals conceding to their critics that their supposedly neutral theories are not neutral, judges, lawyers, and theorists alike continue as if nothing has happened.  The 'wise' are 'wise' who the 'wise' say are wise.  If today’s 'wise' say that liberalism is neutral and that neutrality is good, that is wisdom.  The apotheoses of contemporary liberalism in public life have coincided with the greatest contemporary liberal thinkers conceding that their theories legislate a particular form of morality and have no claim to universality.  Even the author of The Myth of Autonomy embraces a vision of the family based on autonomy.  That’s their story and they are sticking to it."

     Scott Yenor, The recovery of family life:  exposing the limits of modern ideologies (Waco, TX:  Baylor University Press, 2020), 139.  Autonomy or the "pure relationship" (Anthony Giddens, 130- ).  Who is "the author of The Myth of Autonomy"?

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