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This book was cited to articulate liberalism's first idea: that conflict of interests and beliefs, when tamed, could bear fruit through argument, experiment, and exchange.
It built towards liberalism's great insight, what Edmund Fawcett in his book, Liberalism, The Life of an Idea, calls liberalism's first idea. Conflict of interests and beliefs was to the liberal mind...
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This book was cited to articulate liberalism's first idea: that conflict of interests and beliefs, when tamed, could bear fruit through argument, experiment, and exchange.
It built towards liberalism's great insight, what Edmund Fawcett in his book, Liberalism, The Life of an Idea, calls liberalism's first idea. Conflict of interests and beliefs was to the liberal mind inescapable. If tamed and turned to competition in a stable political order, conflict could nevertheless bear fruit as argument, experiment, and exchange.