February 22, 2002

Liberal Machiavelli; Civilizing With Fire; Chicanas' New Identity

Liberalism is an individualistic political theory which states that the chief objective of a political community is to protect the life, liberty, and property of its individual members. Liberals rightly boast of the excellence of this principle when debating with communitarians, who set the objective as the affirmation of some concept of moral good; or with theocrats, who believe the goal is the pursuit of salvation; or with organicists, who see it as the good of society at large, or the