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I'm not sure what you're looking for here. I do think that it would be interesting for the premises of different political ideologies to be outlined. How do you see this happening? How would you articulate a liberal ideology (or your own ideology) in such a fashion? Could you give an example?
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this is partly a reaction to far too many non-debates.
it doesnt seem unreasonable to me to ask that folk be able to interact with their political ideologies at a remove, be able to figure out which are the main structuring features and which are derivative
for example i dont recognize any strict separation between the economic and other areas of social life. so when i think abut economic activity or policies, i find it not problematic to move from ideology to descriptive analysis and back again, and to generate critiques of ideological positions based on outcomes.
neoliberal economic ideology departs from such a split.
i find it untenable.
i dont think there are essences; i dont think social being can be understood AT ALL using objects as the point of departure.
if you look at, say, ustwo's post above, he works from the assumption (whether he knows it or not) that human beings are a type of thing which have an essence which you can point at and call "human nature".
stuff like the above constitutes what seem to me premise-level differences between conservatives and other folk. (this is not at all an exclusive list, btw)
i think that if there is to be productive debate across political positions, they should involve debate about these premises.