Stephen Yearwood
1 min readSep 27, 2024

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Thanks for your compliment.

While I am politically liberal, I understand that Postmodernism has entailed some valid insights. I am disappointed that you rejected out of hand this idea for a secular approach to justice--but which does not involve secular beliefs--for the sake of clinging to some supposed intrinsic superiority of the "ideals of he Left." Those follow from beliefs. That they are secular rather than sacral does not grant them greater validity. That they are yours/mine does not grant them greater validity than the beliefs of, say, Hitler. No belief can be proven to be more true than any other.

One way of looking at this idea is to think of it as "A New Liberalism" (though that is a "24 min read" here in Medium), where, for the just governance of society, an absolute minimum of respect for one another among people--simply due to our existence as fellow human beings who have no choice but to effect choices--replaces a belief in 'equality' and a belief in liberty as the predicate of justice. An other-centered individualism replaces the self-centered individualism of traditional Liberalism.

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Stephen Yearwood
Stephen Yearwood

Written by Stephen Yearwood

M.A. in political economy (money/distributive justice) "Please don't confront me with my failures/ I'm aware of them" from "These Days," as sung by Gregg Allman

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