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“the true, the good, and the beautiful,”
This is what we seek, but not what we can impose on others.
Does liberty consist of living in a society with the “correct” norms and institutions, or rather a society with norms and institutions that reflect persons' choices, even if those are in some sense mistaken, and that could change when people learn they've made a mistake?
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“the true, the good, and the beautiful,”
This is what we seek, but not what we can impose on others.
Does liberty consist of living in a society with the “correct” norms and institutions, or rather a society with norms and institutions that reflect persons' choices, even if those are in some sense mistaken, and that could change when people learn they've made a mistake?
Yeah it's pretty clear that "the true, the good, and the beautiful" would vary a great deal depending on whose standards those are.
I think the general classical liberal viewpoint would be to tolerate a range of views and let people seek "the true, the good, and the beautiful," even if it might be different from what the people running the college believe.