Assertion: liberalism's form | /r/CapableOf | commence with machiavelli
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text: Thus Leo Strauss mourned the transition from virtuous “ancient” liberalism (reaching its apogee in Athens) to debased forms of “modern” liberalism (commencing with Machiavelli), while Sheldon Wolin averred that twentieth-century liberalism had disastrously forgotten its early sceptical enunciation.5 Some neoconservatives have claimed the mantle, seeking, with Irving Kristol, “a return to the original sources of liberal vision and liberal energy so as to correct the warped version.”6 Declension has also been a recurrent libertarian complaint.
text: Thus Leo Strauss mourned the transition from virtuous “ancient” liberalism (reaching its apogee in Athens) to debased forms of “modern” liberalism (commencing with Machiavelli), while Sheldon Wolin averred that twentieth-century liberalism had disastrously forgotten its early sceptical enunciation.5 Some neoconservatives have claimed the mantle, seeking, with Irving Kristol, “a return to the original sources of liberal vision and liberal energy so as to correct the warped version.”6 Declension has also been a recurrent libertarian complaint.