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Limitele liberalismului
The Limits of Liberalism

Author(s): Bogdan Constantin Mihailescu
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Editura Universităţii »Alexandru Ioan Cuza« din Iaşi
Keywords: liberalism; limits; foundationalism; rationalism; relativism

Summary/Abstract: Liberalism has limits. This is a first disillusion that the liberals had to admit. For the liberals, the limits of their political philosophy are disappointments, not betrayals, there are unrealizable ideals, and not fatal errors. Nevertheless, for some of those who criticise the liberalism these limits emphasize the self-dissolving character of liberalism, which, through this kind of failings, breaks down from the inside. The liberal political philosophy has to adapt itself to those challenges coming from a world that – in a great degree – it had also been created by it. For attaining this goal, it needs a better self-knowledge, implying also a minutious radiography of its limits and illusions.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 40-48
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Romanian