Danny Kruger
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Danny Kruger is a special adviser to David Cameron MP, the leader of the Conservative Party of the United Kingdom.
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[edit] On Fraternity: Politics beyond liberty and equality (2007)
- [ Civitas: Institute for the Study of Civil Society ISBN 9781903386576]
- Liberalism is the philosophy of the individual. Its ethic is liberty and its characteristic is autonomy — the freedom of the will from external constraint. It says 'I shall…'.
- "Triangulation" (p. 13)
- Socialism is the philosophy of the state. Its ethic is equality and its characteristic is coercion — the power, in the last resort, to exert force over individuals and groups. It says 'you must…'.
- "Triangulation" (p. 13)
- Conservatism is the philosophy of society. Its ethic is fraternity and its characteristic is authority — the non-coercive social persuasion which operates in a family or a community. It says 'we should…'.
- "Triangulation" (p. 13)
- Where the Left imagine social justice to be the realization of certain abstract ideas — equality and emancipation — the Right see it as a system of naturally occurring and beneficial relationships. Social justice is the fulfilment of the individual's need for positive liberty through social membership.
- "Fraternity" (p. 52)
