Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Individual, Universal, Pluralization, Unification

The positing of Individual Freedom, as prevails in Modern Political Philosophy, entails that the independent existence of a concrete Universal is indifferent, if not antithetical, to that principle.  So the absence, in the era, of unifying purpose as a fundamental element in a polity, at least in part reflects the Logic underlying its construction.  In contrast, if Individual Freedom is historicized, it can be re-interpreted as the culmination of a process of Pluralization.  But, if so, then unifying purpose, likewise historicized, can be re-interpreted as a process of Unification, which, rather than antithetical to Pluralization, can function as its complement.  So, a shift in Logic can transform what have been the standard parameters of Modern Political Philosophy.

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