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description: A research notebook investigating Liberalism and its obsolescence
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### Obsolescence and Liberalism
### Is Liberalism Obsolete?
This weekend's theme asks us to consider whether we think *Liberalism* is *obsolete*. What does this question mean? What are we really trying to get at, when we ask this question? Let us take note that there are two rather expansive and indeterminate words in this question; indeterminate, because of the way the question has been asked. Namely, the words *Liberalism*, and *obsolete*.
What does this question mean? What are we really trying to get at, when we ask this question? Let us take note that there are two rather expansive and indeterminate words in this question; indeterminate, because of the way the question has been asked. Namely, the words *Liberalism*, and *obsolete*.
It is out of fashion these days to begin a philosophy talk with definitions, but I cannot help but do so in this case, because otherwise you will have no idea what I am asking you to agree to in this argument. So, let us begin with the word obsolete. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, obsolete means "*out of fashion, because no longer useful*". Well, if that is true, then the immediate question that arises from this is, no longer useful to whom? and for what?