Epilogue: Last-Chance Liberalism

Amos Witztum ()
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Amos Witztum: London School of Economics

Chapter Chapter 8 in The Economics of Political Philosophy, 2026, pp 641-652 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract We could have forgiven liberalism had its false conception of human nature led to the conclusion that natural liberty—an alluring horizontal social structure of equally autonomous and sovereign people who can achieve that which they had reason to expect from society through free interactions with one another—is a possible state of affairs. After all, a vision of a self-regulated society of equally sovereign individuals must be the ultimate expression of the Enlightenment seen as the emancipation of humanity from the cognitive and physical shackles imposed on it through the power amassed by small groups who wished to abuse others for their own personal ends. But sadly, such forgiveness cannot be extended as the ideal of a spontaneous order is a falsehood of immense magnitude.

Date: 2026
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-04799-1_8

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