{"id":533,"date":"2011-06-24T00:29:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T06:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=533"},"modified":"2011-06-24T00:29:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T06:29:49","slug":"the-science-of-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=533","title":{"rendered":"The Science of Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/6668774-the-science-of-liberty\" style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1276021914m\/6668774.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/6668774-the-science-of-liberty\">The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/4220886.Timothy_Ferris\">Timothy Ferris<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/169039613\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I thoroughly enjoyed this intellectual history &#8212; it hit science, politics, and philosophy.  It was definitely opinionated &#8212; Feyerabend, Lenin, Marx, etc got a major thumbs down!  The last chapter hit on Islamism, Climate Change, and a nice conclusion of the book &#8212; it seemed like there were at least two full books compressed into the last chapter!  Especially in the last two chapters, if felt like the writing became less focused and coherent; that is, there was more jumping between ideas.  Despite this, I loved reading it. And, surprisingly, this book was dedicated to H.S.T. &#8211; I have to assume that is Hunter!  It felt like quite a &#8220;non-Hunter&#8221; like read, but I also do thing it would resonate with deep themes in HST&#8217;s writing\/life.  I think the most important idea in the whole book was the &#8220;triangle&#8221; (and later &#8220;diamond&#8221;) representing the concept that liberalism is not the same as progressive.  Thanks Chip for the recommendation!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/3346363-matt-heavner\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature by Timothy Ferris My rating: 4 of 5 stars I thoroughly enjoyed this intellectual history &#8212; it hit science, politics, and philosophy. It was definitely opinionated &#8212; Feyerabend, Lenin, Marx, etc got a major thumbs down! 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