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Barack Obama’s Political Philosophy
By Fernando Teson On May 21, 2013 · 23 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Current Events, Democracy, Economics, Liberalism, Libertarianism, Liberty
(Author’s note: this is a post about ideas, not politics. It is unrelated to current events. It simply examines the philosophical views expressed by our Chief Executive.)
In a number of speeches, the President has outlined his views on the legitimacy of government. Following the Tea Party success in 2010, he resolutely responded to those [...]
[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 [...]
Libertarians and Human Rights
By Fernando Teson On May 14, 2013 · 9 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Current Events, Economics, Libertarianism, Liberty, Rights Theory
In a recent post, Bas van der Vossen urges libertarians to think more about human rights. I agree, so I write this commentary in the spirit of a friendly amendment.
I think it is important at the outset to distinguish two spheres of endeavor. The first is the academic study of human rights; [...]
Libertarian Human Rights?
By Bas van der Vossen On May 9, 2013 · 85 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Libertarianism, Rights Theory, Social Justice
Some of my academic work deals with international issues. As a result, I read a lot about the philosophy of human rights. It’s hard to read this literature without noticing the nearly complete absence of libertarian input. This post is my call for a libertarian take on human rights.
Libertarians are typically not very friendly [...]
My friend and colleague-of-sorts (at USD’s Institute for Law and Philosophy) Richard Arneson has revised the entry on “Egalitarianism” at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. I think many readers of BHL will find the essay to be of great interest. Arneson is a sharp philosopher, and while he’s no [...]
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 [...]
John Rawls, Margaret Thatcher, and Property Owning Democracy
By Felix Bungay On April 26, 2013 · 50 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Libertarianism, Social Justice
[Editor's Note: The following is a guest contribution by Felix Bungay, a student at the University of Cambridge reading an MPhil in Intellectual History and Political Thought.]
While many Bleeding Heart Libertarians are interested in Rawls, not many of them seem enamoured with his idea of a Property Owning Democracy (POD). I want [...]
Who’s Afraid of Natural Rights? (Part II)
By Bas van der Vossen On April 24, 2013 · 14 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Libertarianism, Rights Theory
In my first post, I discussed the argument that there are no natural rights because such rights are too indeterminate. In this post I wish to take up another kind of objection. Taken together, these arguments show us what natural rights really are.
It is common to say that natural rights are those [...]
What Is a Terrorist?
By Fernando Teson On April 23, 2013 · 40 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Current Events, Liberty, Rights Theory
In the wake of the Boston attack, I thought I would share my view of what makes someone a terrorist. Defining terrorism has proven especially daunting. The main reason is that any definition is condemnatory. The word “terrorism” is not a purely descriptive term; it has strong negative connotations. No one says “I’m a proud [...]
Workshop on Alex Gourevitch, _Something of Slavery Still Remains_
By Jacob Levy On April 17, 2013 · 2 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Announcements, Book/Article Reviews
On May 14, we will hold a workshop at McGill on Alex Gourevitch’s manuscript Something of Slavery Still Remains: Labor and the Cooperative Commonwealth. Gourevitch is Assistant Professor of Political Science at McMaster University, soon to be Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brown University, and one of the authors of [...]
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