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Poll Questions:
- Answer directly the poll questions, both of them. Do so either in the poll itself or in a post.
- Directly answer the Thread Discussion Question. Comply with the citation instruction when doing so.
Notice that the Thread Discussion Question asks about dichotomies, not congruences, so do not discuss similarities/congruences. - Respond to, mention, or discuss nothing else.
Poll Questions:
What's your political stance: liberal, conservative or neither/don't know? Which of these works have you read carefully and completely?
Thread Discussion Question: - On Liberty
- Considerations of Representative Government
- Leviathan
- Second Treatise of Government
- Reflections on the Revolution in France
- The Communist Manifesto
If you self-identified as philosophically liberal or conservative, how do you reconcile the dichotomies between the foundational principles articulated in the seminal text(s) that define the philosophical foundations of liberalism/conservatism (whichever philosophy it be to which you ascribe) and the ideology and/or currently (2017 or later) advocated policies of the Liberal or Conservative party with which you have most recently aligned yourself?
- Cite specific passages from the relevant text(s) when identifying the nature and extent of the dichotomies between your self-selected philosophy and the ideology or specific policy(s) of your self-selected political party.