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I was about to ask this question to a poster on another thread but than I thought that this topic deserves a thread of it's own.
Someone on P.ie maintained that what defined the Right as opposed to the Left is that the former is primarily motivated by fear and the latter is primarily motivated by hope. Now fear can be very prudent and wise and hope can be hope for wrong things or even hope for the right things but held in a manner where it over rides things like prudence and so becomes destructive.
T.E. Hulme maintained that what separates Right and Left is that the former believes in Original Sin while as the former believes that humanity is perfectable by it's own efforts. Jonathan Bowden believed that the Right was defined in seeing inequality as not an evil but rather a good.
So what in your opinion makes someone one person a member of the authentic Right and another person not so?
Someone on P.ie maintained that what defined the Right as opposed to the Left is that the former is primarily motivated by fear and the latter is primarily motivated by hope. Now fear can be very prudent and wise and hope can be hope for wrong things or even hope for the right things but held in a manner where it over rides things like prudence and so becomes destructive.
T.E. Hulme maintained that what separates Right and Left is that the former believes in Original Sin while as the former believes that humanity is perfectable by it's own efforts. Jonathan Bowden believed that the Right was defined in seeing inequality as not an evil but rather a good.
So what in your opinion makes someone one person a member of the authentic Right and another person not so?