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Adam Gurri

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
716 total appearances

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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It

Yeah, no, absolutely.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It

Yeah, no, there's the integralists, as they're called, who just more or less believe that the church should run a country, which is a very funny thing to say in America specifically, frankly.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It

Like, in as much as we're a Christian country, we are... We would not be Catholic.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It

We're not Protestant historically, and nowadays we're barely Protestant, right?

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It

Like, we're evangelical, we're Pentecostal.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It

So what do you mean?

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It

What is the motivation behind like a Patrick Deneen or like an Adrian Vermeule would be the integralist side?

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It

I mean, it varies because there is differences among this group, right?

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It

If I were to point to one thing, and it is the thing where liberalism is the strongest, it's difference.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It

Difference is difficult, right?

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It

And of course, the communitarians claim that liberalism was not good at it, right?

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It

But the communitarian solution is often kind of like the reactionary solution, which is, all right, just give each group their own little space.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It

But the liberal response to that is, that's not possible.