CEVAP:

The self is criticized since it is too abstract in sketching someone who has never lived and never could. It is because the self is unstable internally (in relation to itself) and externally (in relation to society) that it has been criticized by psychologists and philosophers, and also by socialists and conservatives. However, the criticism centers around the same point: the argument that the self cannot be separated from its conditions. This is an objection which the liberal simply has to deny. It cannot be refuted. Therefore, liberalism begins and ends with the denial of any claim that the self is constituted by its conditions.