A Book Review . . . Liberalism Has Deprived Society of Accepted Moral Standards
By JUDE DOUGHERTY Safranek, John P. The Myth of Liberalism. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2015. xvii + 270 pp. This is a timely volume by an author who is both a practicing physician and a philosopher. Drawing upon both his professional experience and the perennial philosophy of Aristotle and Aquinas, he challenges the liberal zeitgeist which prevails in centers, high and low, throughout the Western world. In the opening pages of his book, Safranek shows clearly that liberalism is not a coherent philosophy but is, rather, “a collection of causes marshalled under the banner of personal liberty by powerful social and political interests.” Liberty, equality, right, and nearly all other ephemeral liberal values, he says, are…Continue Reading