Abstract
Commentary on Clive Hamilton's book The Freedom Paradox: Towards a post-secular ethics and the 1960s and 1970s.
Highlights
To speak of the disappointment of liberalism is to infer expectation – an expectation of liberalism. This expectation runs through Clive Hamilton’s book The Freedom Paradox: Towards a post-secular ethics: “Why is it that, despite the wealth and freedom enjoyed by most citizens of rich countries, we do not appear to be the autonomous, fulfilled individuals we were told our wealth and freedom would bring?”1
To speak of disappointment, in the way that Hamilton does in his book, is for me not really an option
Levinas’ claim, that ethics precedes ontology, stated suggests that the Other calls us, obliges us, to be responsible for his or her needs – without appeal to metaphysical justification -
Summary
To speak of the disappointment of liberalism is to infer expectation – an expectation of liberalism.
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