Lessons To Be Learned From Leftists: Hobbes, Rousseau, and the Evils of the Ruling Class

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Ron Nutter
October 23, 2021

Returning to that quote from Edmund Burke I used in my last column, he wrote: “What is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.”

The background for Burke’s insight is the French Revolution which, like a stone tossed into a lake, has subsequently had cultural and political repercussions expanding as concentric circles through history.

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BTTT.

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BTTT.

[Absalom]

Arguably, the greatest creation of the Almighty was Plato. the definer of the Soul of Man,
in identifying his spiritual and material impulses & sensibilities.
Over the following 2,000 years, his ideas remained dominant till the French Enlightenment.
Then materialism rose to prominence, a condition existing ever since.
The wise Ancients understood that Rights were linked at their core to Responsibilities while
we moderns remain oblivious.
The impact of this on culture/society has been devastating over the past 250 years.

[Kamaji]

Liberty without wisdom or virtue is not the greatest of all possible evils.  Ask the dead of Stalin and Mao.  Ask the dead of Pol Pot and the Kim dynasty.