John Rawls, the most influential political philosopher of the 20thcentury, was born 100 years ago today. He died one year before I first readA Theory of Justiceas part of my undergraduate degree in philosophy at University College London. This year, Edward Elgar publishesNeoliberal Social Justice...
John Rawls, the most influential political philosopher of the 20thcentury, was born 100 years ago today. He died one year before I first readA Theory of Justiceas part of my undergraduate degree in philosophy at University College London. This year, Edward Elgar publishesNeoliberal Social Justice...
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and teaching. I have been intrigued by philosophy and theology since high school. Since then I did my undergraduate degree at Summit Pacific College, close to where I live so that I could help my family build our new house, while preparing to impact my world for Christ. At Summit, I ear...
This is the terminology that appears to be most in line with the tradition, at least in philosophy. Of course, a different terminology could have been chosen. We could choose to use the term “paternalistic” about all measures that have the purpose to benefit a person against that person’...
It is in the essays “Degrees of Explanation” and “The Theory of Complex Phenomena” –later collected in the volume ofStudies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, 1967- in which Hayek expressly recognizes in that Gödel’s Theorem and also in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s paradoxes about the ...
Since today’s column debunks sloppy class warfare, let’s travel back to 2014, when Deirdre McCloskey reviewed Pikittey’s tome for the Erasmus Journal of Philosophy and Economics. She also thought his fixation on envy was misguided. …in Piketty’s tale the rest of us fall only relatively...
It makes me think of Mansfield's comment in the first class of the History of Ancient and Medieval Political Philosophy: "To understand is to forgive." To understand is to contextualize, and to contextualize is to dehumanize - looking for forces and explanations beyond individual responsibility....
Whatever you call it, this philosophy is nicely captured by this image. I mostly focus on the economic arguments for liberty. But maybe this cartoon will make libertarianism more appealing to some people. I was thinking about saving this final image for July 4, 2021, but I think it’s a...
,Current Events,Liberty,Philosophy,F.A. Hayek,James Buchanan,liberalism,libertarianism,,philosophy This week Kevin Vallier published a new entry on neoliberalism inthe Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:Neoliberalism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). It is a well-written, well-researched piece. Howe...