Posts by: Jason Brennan
I’ve hard a hard time understanding why David Friedman and a few other commentators (e.g., Ryan) are so resistant to the account of “social justice” I’ve given. Recall, we’re not here debating whether any theories of social justice are true, but just about what the word means. I think I’ve figured out the issue now.
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[Note: Sorry for the strange lack of paragraph breaks under the fold. I don't know how to fix this.]
David Friedman is worried that the term “social justice” has no definite meaning, despite my claims to the contrary. He has two arguments to this effect:
My definition leaves open a great number of [...]
Consider this a Robin Hanson-style post.
Obama ran on transparency, civil liberties, press freedom, and a less militaristic foreign policy. However, his record is poor. His presidency has been more like a third Bush II term. How should we interpret that?
1. Obama was never sincere.
2. Obama was sincere, but power corrupts.
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Unless we accept Zwolinski and his fellow Bleeding Hearts as the final arbiters in this matter, we will need clearly defined criteria by which we can identify legitimate exceptions to the NAP, and distinguish them from purported exceptions that cannot be justified. Again, it will not do for Zwolinski (or anyone else) to [...]
Having well-informed, sophisticated views about complex issues is an achievement of a sort, and can be admirable. Managing to be rationally agnostic about complex issues is also an achievement, and is admirable. Forming cartoony opinions on complex matters is not admirable. As Edith Watson Schipper says, Reasons are the coin by which we pay for [...]
Zwolinski and Smith have already discovered that much of their disagreement is verbal, rather than substantive. But there are some real differences here.
In an earlier post, Matt wrote:
The NAP clearly implies that it’s wrong for me to shoot you in the head. But, to borrow an example from David Friedman, [...]
I’m participating in a conference on “Markets, Justice, and the Law” at the end of the month. The theme of the conference is in part to examine where the social sciences and political philosophy tend to go wrong. I’m writing a short piece for discussion about some of the pathologies of political philosophy. Here’s my [...]
It seems that every year, someone publishes a book on the moral limits of markets. Peter Jaworski and I will most likely be writing a book responding to these other books, trying to show that most of their objections fail or are misdiagnoses of the problem. Here’s a very abbreviated taste of one topics we’ll [...]
Cartoon libertarians–and there are many of them–usually think the non-aggression principle does a lot of philosophical work. Zwolinski has been arguing the principle is really quite problematic. A flustered George Smith has been writing various responses, none of which seem to have any real force to me. I’ll just comment on a few [...]
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