ABSTRACT
George Grant has been called the only major philosopher accessible to a reading public. Philosophy, like technology, has an ambiguous relationship to democracy. As Gad Horowitz has pointed out, the egalitarian dimensions in Grant's thought derive from his Christianity. In his earlier writings, such as Philosophy in the Mass Age and "An Ethic of Community", written when he was a democratic socialist, Grant emphasized that we are all equal in terms of our moral choices. At the same time, Grant strongly emphasized the liberating effects of modem technology. Grant's rethinking the destiny of technological societies led him to de-emphasize choice or will as the essential feature of humans. Liberalism then is, for Grant, the fitting doctrine of an expansive technological society because it denies that there are any given restraints to the imperial dynamic of technology. Socialists and conservatives are distinct from liberals in that they postulate the primacy of social order over individual freedom.
