Blog & Mablog - On the Imposition of Liberty | Doug Wilson

Blog & Mablog
June 26, 2024
On the Imposition of Liberty | Doug Wilson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilTIxYbViOw
What is the relationship between virtue and liberty? Not only is it an important question, it is also a vexed question. Not surprisingly, a good deal of confusion surrounds it. Some of the confusion is honest confusion, and some of it is not so honest. But either way, it is still confusion.

A related item, and equally confused, is the question of whether or not the preservation of individual liberty is the prime directive when it comes to the exercise of political power. The libertarian (and the liberal) would both say yes. The historic conservative would say no—but not because liberty is not to be protected, but rather because it is not the only good to be protected. There are national goods besides individual liberty, and let me count the ways.