Philosophy

The book Letters to a Young Conservative by Dinesh D'Souza teaches and informs younger political strived people of the culture and well being of being political motivated. This book is excellent because it entails all the details of being involved in politics in these days.
    In the first pages of the book, D'Souza explains how he was at a university to give a speech and how all of these protestors would not let him make his speech. He found this absurd. He then explains what the difference is in being liberal and conservative. The key points in being a liberal are virtues that include; equality, compassion, pluralism, diversity, social justice, peace, autonomy, and tolerance to name a few. It seems to D'Souza that key points to being conservative are merit, patriotism, prosperity, national unity, social order, morality, and responsibility. In my opinion conservatives seem to be more country first oriented. The liberals seem to be more self-oriented thinking of the individual before the country way. As the author says, liberals proclaim self-humanity. Another key difference is the fact that most conservatives stress economic growth while liberals emphasize redistribution. In other words, conservatives want people to get money almost means possible. On the other hand, liberals want money almost split up, not anywhere near the idea of communism or any of those ideals, but spread out more among the citizens.
    Many different ways to thinking come about from these two sides. Liberals tend to believe in the enlightenment thinker Jean Jacques Rousseau's ways. He stated that "human nature is intrinsically good" This means that when people do wrong things in liberal eyes, they are doing this because "society has put them in an unfortunate ...
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