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To call for dialogue here is simply to invite trouble, since any exchange which enables the parties to understand each other better may engender greater contempt rather than bring about reconciliation. To be understood is to be found out. ) If this is true, then it may also be unwise to place too high a value on social solidarity. An easy tolerance of differences into whose deepest character we choose not to inquire may, in the end, make for the least conflictual and quarrelsome society. None of this is to say that close attachments are without value, or even unimportant for a well-functioning society.
To be understood is to be found out. ) If this is true, then it may also be unwise to place too high a value on social solidarity. An easy tolerance of differences into whose deepest character we choose not to inquire may, in the end, make for the least conflictual and quarrelsome society. None of this is to say that close attachments are without value, or even unimportant for a well-functioning society. It is only to say that we should not put too much store by them. As David Hume remarked, ‗Constancy in friendships, attachments, and familiarities, is commendable, and is requisite to support trust and good correspondence in society.
It ought perhaps to be recognized that this image of a liberal society lacks many of the features modern readers may take for granted as a part of a liberal order. For the liberal order described here is not simply the liberal democratic state as we have known it in the twentieth century—exemplified in such polities as the United States, Britain, India, Japan, and New Zealand. A liberal order could quite conceivably be a hereditary monarchy or an aristocracy and remain liberal if it is an order in which authority is dispersed and dissent is tolerated.
