Liberalism as a Way of Life

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

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4.6 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Yascha Mounk and Alexandre Lefebvre discuss taking liberalism seriously as the main moral paradigm of our world. Alexandre Lefebvre is a professor of politics and philosophy at the University of Sydney. His books include Human Rights as a Way of Life and, most recently, Liberalism as a Way of Life. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Alexandre Lefebvre discuss the difference between political liberalism and liberalism as a comprehensive doctrine—or “way of life”; how we can uphold the core tenets of comprehensive liberalism—such as freedom, fairness, and reciprocity—in our daily lives; and the enduring relevance of the 20th century's foremost liberal philosopher, John Rawls. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by Jack Shields, and Brendan Ruberry Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	History.
0:01.0	What does this make you think of?
0:04.0	Swords, armor, castles, cannons, trenches, tanks, tanks?
0:10.0	Or perhaps it makes you think of bravery, courage, resistance.
0:15.6	We shall fight on the beaches and in the streets.
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0:30.1	I'm a floster and in my neck of the woods everyone and their mother is writing a book about like wisdom from whatever tradition they are doing.
0:39.0	So you have books coming out every day on like how to live well according to Motang, the Scottish Enlightenment, Chinese
0:44.8	philosophy, whatever and everyone's trying to like go somewhere else to try to find
0:48.3	meaning and pull it into our world and what I'm trying to do in the book is
0:52.4	suggest that maybe the answer is already in the room.
0:55.0	Maybe we already have a robust philosophy and we already absorb it and we just need to double down on the thing that we already have.
1:02.0	And now the good fight with Yahoo. on the thing that we already have.
1:03.0	And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.
1:10.0	My guest today is Alex LeFev.
1:14.3	Alex is a professor of politics and philosophy at the University of Sydney and he is the
1:18.4	author of a book that I have really come to like and appreciate.
1:24.1	A book published by a university press,
1:26.7	but that is getting a lot of bus for good reason
1:28.6	because it really deserves a broader audience. And it is called liberalism as a way of life. In the book Alex
1:37.6	argues that we should recognize liberalism as one of the main philosophies of our age, not just when it comes to issues like free speech, issues like the kind of constraints we put on what the government gets to tell us to do.
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