Thursday, March 22, 2018

The Best Books on Liberty and Morality | Five Books

https://fivebooks.com/best-books/peter-berkowitz-on-liberty-and-morality/

Differences of opinion about what constitutes human flourishing and how we should live our lives, what is justice, what is injustice, what are the virtues that constitute a good life and so on; studying that conversation is the essence of the highest form of education that our civilisation offers. In other words, the education that he recommends is anything but dogmatic. It's sometimes mistaken for a canonical education but the canon he is interested in is a canon that is constituted by disagreement over these important questions.

_- Steve

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