Freedom and virtue are essential complements to one another.
That both freedom and virtue are essential to human flourishing is one of the great truths of Western civilization and the Judeo-Christian ethic. The two can be in tension — freedom obviously subsumes the option to choose vice — but they are never in total conflict. Freedom is achieved primarily through the political world, and virtue primarily through intermediate institutions like family and church. Fusionism does not provide specific answers to many of the practical questions we face today, but it does provide a framework for thinking them through. It takes its foundations in theories of natural law going back ...
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