Alfred North Whitehead said that the European philosophical tradition is just a series of foot notes to Plato.

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The influential philosophical tradition is a broad liberal family that happily encompasses both Milton Friedman and Paul Krugman and lets them argue about how best to advance human welfare.

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It bears all the marks of the analytical tradition in philosophical thinking of the English-speaking world.

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Some Eurocrats suggest that the philosophical gap reflects the American constitutional tradition that everything is allowed unless it is forbidden, against the Napoleonic tradition codifying what the state allows and banning everything else.

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