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On Simon Nelson Patten’s Progressivism: A note

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  • Fiorito, Luca
  • Vatiero, Massimiliano

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This note is an attempt to offer a somewhat more comprehensive assessment of Patten’s views on individual rights, poverty and social efficiency, as well his ideas on eugenics, biological determinism, and immigration. This will allow us to better delineate the differences—as well as the affinities—between Patten and the core of progressives recently discussed by Thomas C. Leonard in his acclaimed Illiberal Reformers. It is our contention that even within the persisting intricacies, ambiguities and contradictions of Patten’s expository style it is possible to trace a shift in some aspects of his ideas—a gradual evolution which makes his peculiar brand of progressivism different from that of his most “illiberal” counterparts.

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  • Fiorito, Luca & Vatiero, Massimiliano, 2020. "On Simon Nelson Patten’s Progressivism: A note," SocArXiv 49evj, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:49evj
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/49evj
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