Today's One Cosmos blog is my pick for Read of the Day today, for many reasons, including a nice mention of WFB. Here are some (edited) excerpts:
[WFB] was a man who incarnated American ideals by utilizing liberty to actualize his potential in the most extraordinarily diverse ways, but always in the context of the "higher we" of the "American spirit," so to speak. It was not individualism for its own sake, but in order to "become" everything that his Creator intended for him to be, which is the purpose and vector of our liberty.
...And this is indeed the broad purpose of the spiritual life -or let us just say "life": to become what you already are. The purpose can never be to become what the group wishes for you to be, for this is slavery, not liberty.
...Classical liberalism enshrines a sort of liberty that implicitly promotes the use of it for higher ends, since it is a "gift" given for that purpose.
Read the whole post here (scroll to the top of the page).
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