Liberalism regards life as ... by Morris Raphael Cohen, a Russian Philosopher

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“Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.”

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Morris Raphael Cohen

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Name: Morris Raphael Cohen

Nationality: Russian

Date of Birth: Jul 25, 1880

Date of Death: Jan 28, 1947

Profession: Philosopher

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If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.

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Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.

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Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.

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It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one.

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This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries.

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