I believe that Dostoevsky is key here. There is great truth in his critique of Western liberalism, which can be appropriated without necessarily falling into his error of Russo-centrism. What Dostoevsky implies is that the fundamental idea of liberalism -- freedom -- is indeed good, perhaps "the" good, but that outside of Christ this fr…
I believe that Dostoevsky is key here. There is great truth in his critique of Western liberalism, which can be appropriated without necessarily falling into his error of Russo-centrism. What Dostoevsky implies is that the fundamental idea of liberalism -- freedom -- is indeed good, perhaps "the" good, but that outside of Christ this freedom inevitably becomes corrupt and as a result, tyrannical. Del Noce opines that in the West a similar conclusion was arrived at by Rosmini, whom I have yet to read.
I believe that Dostoevsky is key here. There is great truth in his critique of Western liberalism, which can be appropriated without necessarily falling into his error of Russo-centrism. What Dostoevsky implies is that the fundamental idea of liberalism -- freedom -- is indeed good, perhaps "the" good, but that outside of Christ this freedom inevitably becomes corrupt and as a result, tyrannical. Del Noce opines that in the West a similar conclusion was arrived at by Rosmini, whom I have yet to read.