{"id":45607,"date":"2019-04-24T08:23:02","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T13:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45607"},"modified":"2019-04-24T08:29:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T13:29:37","slug":"on-finding-our-authentic-selves-or-the-true-and-the-false-in-the-age-of-rousseau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45607","title":{"rendered":"On Finding Our Authentic Selves: or, the True and the False in the Age of Rousseau"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2019-04-24\/on-finding-our-authentic-selves-or-the-true-and-the-false-in-the-age-of-rousseau\/\">On Finding Our Authentic Selves: or, the True and the False in the Age of Rousseau<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DOI_Rousseau.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Being Part 3 of: Why Liberals Should be Conservative: Climate Change, Excellence, and the Practice of Happiness<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>It may be urged that every individual man carries, within himself, at least in his adaptation and destination, a purely ideal man. The great problem of his existence is to bring all the incessant changes of his outer life into conformity with the unchanging unity of this ideal.&nbsp;<\/em>\u2013Friedrich von Schiller<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Communism<em>&nbsp;as the&nbsp;<\/em>positive<em>&nbsp;transcendence of&nbsp;<\/em>private property as human self-estrangement<em>, and therefore as the real&nbsp;<\/em>appropriation of the human essence<em>&nbsp;by and for itself; communism therefore as the complete return of man to himself as a social (i.e. human) being&nbsp; . . . . This communism, as fully developed naturalism, equals humanism, and as fully developed humanism equals naturalism; it is the&nbsp;<\/em>genuine<em>&nbsp;resolution of the conflict between man and nature and between man and man\u2014the true resolution of the strife between existence and essence, between objectification and self-confirmation, between freedom and necessity, between the individual and the species.<\/em>\u2013Karl Marx<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>As in every kind of radicalism the moment comes when any critique of the present must choose its bearings, between past and future.&nbsp; And if the past is chose, as now so often and so deeply, we must push the argument through to the roots that are being defended; push attention, human attention, back to the natural economy, the moral economy, the organic society, from which the critical values are drawn.<\/em>\u2013Raymond Williams<a href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2019-04-24\/on-finding-our-authentic-selves-or-the-true-and-the-false-in-the-age-of-rousseau\/#_edn1\">[i]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First, a recap: I have proposed in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2019-01-16\/why-liberals-should-be-conservative-climate-change-excellence-and-the-practice-of-happiness\/\">Part 1<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2019-02-04\/why-liberals-should-be-conservative-climate-change-excellence-and-the-practice-of-happiness-part-2\/\">Part 2<\/a>\u00a0that Liberalism (which, recall, encompasses mainstream liberals and \u201cconservatives\u201d) does not have the conceptual resources to enforce or even encourage limits to consumption.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Finding Our Authentic Selves: or, the True and the False in the Age of Rousseau Being Part 3 of: Why Liberals Should be Conservative: Climate Change, Excellence, and the Practice of Happiness It may be urged that every individual man carries, within himself, at least in his adaptation and destination, a purely ideal man. 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