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A “Catholic Whig” Replies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Michael Novak
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When the Whigs define themselves as the Party of Liberty, furthermore, they define liberty in a special way. They do not mean libertinism or any other disordered form of liberty, such as a supposed “liberty to do whatever one feels like doing.” For them, a liberty undirected by reflection and choice is slavery. For them, liberty must be achieved through a self-mastery that nourishes reflection and choice. Such self-mastery is won by slowly gaining dominion over appetite, passion, ignorance, and whim. For them, the enabling agent and protector of liberty is virtue—indeed, a full quiver of virtues. (This Hemisphere of Liberty, 1992, pp. 9–10)

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Research Article
Information
The Review of Politics , Volume 58 , Issue 2 , Spring 1996 , pp. 259 - 264
Copyright
Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1996

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