Abp. Salvatore Cordileone: Catholics Should Debate ‘Postliberalism’

For the past several years, a lively debate has emerged among Catholics and other political thinkers over what has come to be known as “postliberalism.” The heart of the debate concerns a basic question: What principles should guide public life and political institutions in an age when many people have lost confidence in the moral and social assumptions that have shaped the modern West?

By “liberalism,” debate participants tend to refer to the political philosophy that has largely shaped Western democracies over the past two centuries. It is one that raises individual liberty to the level of the supreme social good, even at the expense of the communal bonds with their corresponding social norms that have traditionally held societies together. …

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