Abraham Kuyper and Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer as Anti-Rationalist Liberals
In an insightful essay on the role of reason and tradition in classical liberal political and social thought, F. A. Hayek writes that the modern theory of liberty has been advanced by two different, often contradictory, traditions. On the one hand, “speculative and rationalistic” liberalism has aime...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2021, Volume: 63, Issue: 2, Pages: 197-215 |
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Kuyper, Abraham 1837-1920
/ Groen van Prinsterer, Guillaume 1801-1876
/ Liberalism
/ Protestantism
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| IxTheo Classification: | KBD Benelux countries SA Church law; state-church law |
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| Summary: | In an insightful essay on the role of reason and tradition in classical liberal political and social thought, F. A. Hayek writes that the modern theory of liberty has been advanced by two different, often contradictory, traditions. On the one hand, “speculative and rationalistic” liberalism has aimed at some sort of revolutionary “utopia” that can be designed by the will of an individual or group of individuals. On the other hand, anti-rationalist, “empirical and unsystematic” liberalism is “based on an interpretation of traditions and institutions which had spontaneously grown up.” The main goal of this article is to explore this... |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csaa029 |