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Entry: Libertarians in Heaven Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/blessed_libertarian#13468 Post contents: I'm really confused by this piece. Maistre a "precursor" of the neo-cons? In what way? I can find no reference to him in Leo Strauss. Isaiah Berlin called him a "precursor" to fascism. The consensus, at least, seems to be he is a precursor. Is including Rosmini among the leftists (their own label, not mine) Maritain and Gilson a good thing? But then the Fascist philosopher Giovanni Gentile held Rosmini in high esteem. The definition of "reason" as somehow related to "free inquiry", etc., sound more like a passage from John Dewey. Doesn't the urgent quest of reason ever have a terminus? And how can one speak of reason (ratio) without mentioning nous or intellectus? Based on your other essays, I was expecting that. Sent at: 2008 10 12