{"id":10700,"date":"2020-02-13T05:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T10:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=10700"},"modified":"2023-07-14T21:38:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T00:38:34","slug":"641-freedom-forward-philosophys-indispensable-role-in-determining-the-right-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/10700","title":{"rendered":"641 – Freedom Forward – Philosophy’s indispensable role in determining the Right Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Additionally, there is a certain ‘literalism’ on the philosophic front, with many freedom advocates rejecting the best political alternative on the basis of some kind of philosophical impurity or inconsistency on the part of a given politician or party.<\/p>\n

This is dangerous thinking<\/strong>, and can lead to unwarranted feelings of futility, frustration, and cynicism regarding political action in general. It is an affliction that most affects those on the Right<\/strong>, and is in part responsible for the continuing ascendancy of the Left and the erosion of our freedoms.<\/p>\n

As our Freedom Panel discussion illustrates, it\u2019s important to understand that, in politics, philosophy is more about determining political direction than it is about reaching the destination.<\/strong> It can be self-defeating to turn one\u2019s philosophical aspirations into a political obstacle.<\/p>\n

For freedom\u2019s advocates, philosophical perfection in politics is a goal that will never be achieved, given the nature of politics itself. The best that one can hope for \u2013 and support – is an ideal that, given the always limited range of alternatives, is the closest to being Just Right. <\/p>\n

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There is a widespread belief \u2013 particularly among advocates of freedom and capitalism – that individual freedom and individual rights will spontaneously emerge if nations gradually adopt various forms of capitalism, freer markets, and\/or more private economic initiatives. Yet, many socialist, fascist and communist jurisdictions have done exactly this, but nevertheless remained socialist, fascist or [Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,25,51,62,69,111,596,84,28,629,165,6,120,598],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-capitalism-politics","category-conservatism","category-culture-society","category-economics","category-governance","category-ideas","category-journalism","category-latest","category-objectivism","category-political-parties","category-politics","category-socialism","category-society","issues-capitalism","issues-freedom","issues-philosophy","issues-politics","personalities-roger-scruton","guests-danielle-metz","guests-dave-durnin","guests-gordon-mood","guests-liz-bendell","guests-paul-mckeever","guests-robby-smink","guests-ted-harlson","category-12-id","category-25-id","category-51-id","category-62-id","category-69-id","category-111-id","category-596-id","category-84-id","category-28-id","category-629-id","category-165-id","category-6-id","category-120-id","category-598-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10700"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10809,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10700\/revisions\/10809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}