Tony Judt Quotes

Once Upon A Time, One Looked To Society
Or Class, Or Community
For One's Normative Vocabulary: What Was Good For Everyone Was By Definition Good For Anyone. But The Converse Does Not Hold. What Is Good For One Person May Or May Not Be Of Value Or Interest To Another. Conservative Philosophers Of An Earlier Age Understood This Well, Which Was Why They Resorted To Religious Language And Imagery To Justify Traditional Authority And Its Claims Upon Each Individual.
But The Individualism Of The New Left Respected Neither Collective Purpose Nor Traditional Authority: It Was, After All, Both New And Left. What Remained To It Was The Subjectivism Of Private
And Privately-measured
Interest And Desire. This, In Turn, Invited A Resort To Aesthetic And Moral Relativism: If Something Is Good For Me It Is Not Incumbent Upon Me To Ascertain Whether It Is Good For Someone Else
Much Less To Impose It Upon Them ("do Your Own Thing").

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