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Mill refines utilitarianism into classical liberalism: people may do and say what they want if they do not harm others, and open debate lets society progress.
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Mill refines utilitarianism into classical liberalism: people may do and say what they want if they do not harm others, and open debate lets society progress.
Jiang reads Kant as defending an absolutist understanding of freedom of expression, including speech others might hate, because censorship denies people's capacity to judge.
Jiang argues that liberalism is dead because Trump caused liberals to conclude that democratic speech, debate, and voting cannot work if people cannot be reasoned with.
"You wanna eat ice cream, go eat ice cream. You're not harming anyone, all right? Obviously there are lots of issues with this theory..."
"bring and Lenement to main kind he is arguing for absolute freedom of expression okay even if it's hate speech in you say racist..."
"And then you look at what's happening in Israel, right? Well, more young people now believe that America is a force of evil in..."
"So, they came to believe that the problem was democracy itself. The problem is that people could not be reasoned with. Therefore, liberalism makes..."
"...2030. They're already doing it. They're clamping down on free, on free speech. They're clamping, you know, they're, they're, they're doing all kinds of..."
"He fought for himself. And he was a passionate advocate of free speech. He was a man who wrote Paradise Lost. And he wrote..."
"...by its power. So he's rejecting the idea of liberalism, of free speech, of openness, of negotiation, of institutions. And he's focusing on the..."
Britain becomes empire not because it begins powerful, but because it begins divided, poor, exposed, and forced to change.
The French Revolution is not introduced as politics first.
A June 2024 lecture arguing that the next American civil war will not repeat 1861.
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