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On liberalism, Gray identified the common strands in liberal thought as being individualist, egalitarian, meliorist, and universalist. The individualist element avers the ethical primacy of the human being against the pressures of social collectivism, the egalitarian element assigns the same moral worth and status to all individuals, the meliorist element asserts that successive generations can improve their sociopolitical arrangements, and the universalist element affirms the moral unity of the human species and marginalises local cultural differences. [10] the truth of which can be proved only by elaborate historical investigations." 4 Traditional Critique of Mill's Utilitarianism: Its Unwarranted

Preston, John (28 February 2013). "John Gray interview: how an English academic become the world's pre-eminent prophet of doom". The Daily Telegraph.

Corey Robin (2011). The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin. Oxford University Press. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-19-991188-2. The darkness within. John Gray on why the left is in flight from "human nature". John Gray. Published in New Statesman 16 September 2002

BBC Radio 4 – A Point of View – Episodes by date, November 2014". bbc.co.uk. BBC . Retrieved 28 November 2014.Central to the doctrine of humanism, in Gray's view, is the inherently utopian belief in meliorism; that is, that humans are not limited by their biological natures and that advances in ethics and politics are cumulative and that they can alter or improve the human condition, in the same way that advances in science and technology have altered or improved living standards. [11] He identifies the Enlightenment as the point at which the Christian doctrine of salvation was taken over by secular idealism and became a political religion with universal emancipation as its aim. [11] Communism, fascism and "global democratic capitalism" are characterised by Gray as Enlightenment "projects" which have led to needless suffering, in Gray's view, as a result of their ideological allegiance to this religion. [14] Agonistic liberalism [ edit ]

Going nowhere: Laurie Taylor interviews John Gray". Newhumanist.org.uk. 31 May 2007 . Retrieved 9 August 2013. Nassim Nicholas Taleb has written that John Gray is the modern thinker for whom he has the most respect, calling him "prophetic". [25] Criticism [ edit ]BBC Radio 4 – A Point of View, Believing in Belief". Bbc.co.uk. 18 September 2011 . Retrieved 9 August 2013. Gray, John (1989). Liberalisms: Essays in Political Philosophy. London & New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-00744-3. John Nicholas Gray (born 17 April 1948) is an English political philosopher and author with interests in analytic philosophy, the history of ideas, [1] and philosophical pessimism. [2] He retired in 2008 as School Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Gray contributes regularly to The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement and the New Statesman, where he is the lead book reviewer. He is an atheist. [3] Gray, John (2004). Heresies: Against Progress and Other Illusions. London: Granta Books. ISBN 978-1-86207-718-8.

it is also contradicted by much of what Mill says in On Liberty. Mill as a Transitional Thinker: Between the Objectivist In his 2004 book, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World, the British journalist, writer and broadcaster, Francis Wheen, wrote:

Founded in 1919 after the First World War, the uniquely named Cray Valley Paper Mills are an Isthmian League South East Division club who play at the Artic Stadium on Badgers Sports Ground. Asteroid 91199 Johngray, discovered by astronomer Eric Walter Elst at ESO's La Silla Observatory in 1998, was named in his honor. [38] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 18 June 2008 ( M.P.C. 63174). [39] Gray is a member of World Minds. George Crowder (2006). "Gray and the Politics of Pluralism". Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. 9 (2): 171–188. doi: 10.1080/13698230600655008. S2CID 144224371.