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« on: March 10, 2008, 11:35:30 PM » |
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Since my junior year of college, I have been interested in the juncture of ideology and the idea that one has effective free-will. This is what I understand the situation to be so far-
Classical Modern Era
Socialism- The common good is that self-agency goes against the needs of the common interest. There is generally no such thing as effective free-will and the goal of society should be for the forces that act upon you to be benevalent. You can have free-will, but only in the sense of protecting yourselves from those who naturally act upon you, including yourself.
Traditional Conservatism- The common good is perserved through the structure of self-agency that society has always relied on. Some people have self-agency, some people don't and this is for all of our good.
Classical Liberalism/Libertarianism- The common good is "found" out of the collective of everyone exerting their individual agency. Everyone has self-agency and the law should be designed to allow everyone to exercise it to the greatest extent possible.
Neo-Modern Era (After the Great Depression, WWII and the Onset of the Cold War)
Modern Liberalism- The common is good is that all can contribute to society through their own free will. Naturally, some people have self-agency and some people don't. The goal of the social contract is to alter everyone's circumstances so that as many people can have the most self-agency.
Neo-Conservatism as Straus presented it- The common good is that naturally occuring structures of power and agency be perserved. Self-Agency is abusive in the hands of those do not naturally have it. The goal for society is to allow those who naturally have it to maintain it against those who lack it and covet it and to increase their agency over those who lack it or do not deserve it.
Fundamentalism- self-agency is a bad thing as it clouds the common good. The common good is something that is concrete, inmutable and very specific. Everyone should only be interested in their part in filling their natural part of the common good.
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