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Barack Obama’s Political Philosophy
By Fernando Teson On May 21, 2013 · 24 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 [...]
Tomasi Book Workshop Part I
By Jason Brennan On March 15, 2013 · 74 Comments · In Book/Article Reviews, Liberalism, Libertarianism, Rights Theory
The Pacific APA is holding an author meets critics session on John Tomasi’s Free Market Fairness in late March. I’m one of the critics, along with Steve Wall and Paul Gowder. Over the next few weeks, I’ll post my comments for the session. I’ll blog after the session about Tomasi’s response (or perhaps he’ll blog his [...]
Libertarians regularly argue about the relationship between their political commitments and their “moral views.” The disagreement seems to proceed by answers to two questions.
1. Do libertarian political commitments imply moral commitments?
2. If yes, which moral commitments?
Those who answer “No” to the first question are sometimes called “thin” libertarians, [...]
Adam Smith’s Moral and Political Philosophy
By Matt Zwolinski On February 15, 2013 · 62 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Liberalism, Libertarianism
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has an excellent new entry up by Samuel Fleishacker on “Adam Smith’s Moral and Political Philosophy.” The whole thing is worth reading, including the extremely helpful summary of Smith’s complicated moral theory as developed in his Theory of Moral Sentiments.
But for most readers of this blog, it is [...]
For those just tuning in, the latest libertarian internet dust up surrounds Julie Borowski’s video about why there are not more libertarian women. In it, she argues that women are not libertarians in part because libertarianism is kinda dorky and women care more than men about acceptance. When I first saw the video, [...]
On this blog, I’ve sometimes defended Hayek against unfair attacks (see here, here and here). And I’ve recently read that Brad DeLong has repeated the falsehood that Hayek understood himself to be arguing that “regulatory intervention was in the long run incompatible with a free society,” in [...]
Property-Owning Democracy is Authoritarian
By Kevin Vallier On December 31, 2012 · 9 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Liberalism, Libertarianism, Social Justice
I’ve argued (ad nauseam) that property-owning democracy is bad because it is unworkable and unjust. I shall now argue that it is authoritarian as well. But before I begin, what do I mean by authoritarian?
The authoritarian, in Jerry Gaus’s terms, is one who
… demands that others [...]
Property-Owning Democracy is Unjust, Free-Market Fairness is Not
By Kevin Vallier On December 20, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Economics, Liberalism, Social Justice
In my last post, in my series on property-owning democracy (POD), I claimed that it is unjust because POD frustrates the realization of Rawls’s (unmodified) two principles of justice. But another more interesting method of showing that PODs are unjust is to show PODs violate a more plausible, modified version of Rawls’s two [...]
1950s Nostalgia for Me but Not for Thee
By Steve Horwitz On December 16, 2012 · 45 Comments · In Current Events, Economics, Liberalism, Uncategorized
One of the more curious developments in the last couple of years has been the nostalgia for the 1950s economy from many progressives, especially Paul Krugman. They want to argue how much better off the middle class was back then, including how much more secure they supposedly were. In a terrific paper for Cato,
In my on-going series on Property-Owning Democracy (POD), I have explained the idea of a POD, examined the case for POD and argued that POD is unworkable. In this post, I shall argue that POD is unjust on Rawlsian grounds. I will make two arguments to this effect:
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