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In this post, following my previous post, I will review the Rawlsian arguments for property-owning democracy (POD) and comment a bit on their structure. In short, POD is required to realize Rawlsian principles because welfare-state capitalism (WSC) fails to properly disperse capital and provide worker control required to realize Rawls’s two principles of [...]
Corey Brettschneider, a political philosopher at Brown, has just published an interesting and thoughtful new book, When the State Speaks, What Should It Say? How Democracies Can Protect Expression and Promote Equality. I’m participating in a reading group on the book over at the Public Reason blog (a blog devoted to political [...]
“Anti-State” or “Pro-Liberty”? Some Thoughts on Israel
By Steve Horwitz On November 20, 2012 · 124 Comments · In Current Events, Democracy, Liberalism, Libertarianism, Liberty
A recent discussion on my Facebook wall has prompted me to share a few thoughts about libertarianism and the Israel-Palestine conflict. Let me start with one point: I am no expert on the history of the area. Many, but not all, people whose knowledge of that history I trust share (I think) much, but not [...]
Brink Lindsey ends his recent post with the following question, one that continues to plague political philosophy,
If liberal neutrality does have limits, where are they and how do you know them when you see them?
The point of this post is to briefly outline a version of liberal neutrality I find philosophically [...]
The New Theory of Justice
By Fernando Teson On September 7, 2012 · 50 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Book/Article Reviews, Liberalism, Libertarianism, Liberty
Modern political philosophers (such as Rawls, Dworkin, and others) have tried to reconcile the traditional liberal concern for liberty with the demands of distributive justice, the latter understood as a concern with the claims that the disadvantaged members of society may have on the rest. These writers realize that the coercion needed to realize distributive [...]
Freedom of Association Revisited
By Kevin Vallier On August 29, 2012 · 88 Comments · In Liberalism, Libertarianism, Liberty, Rights Theory
In my last post, which generated a lot of controversy, I discussed (but did not defend) FIRE’s (apparent) plan to defend the freedom of association rights of religious groups at Vanderbilt. The issue, briefly, is that the Vanderbilt administrators decided to require all student groups to allow anyone into their organization, regardless [...]
Many of our readers appreciated Elizabeth Anderson’s contribution to this blog a few months back, critical though it was of many key libertarian claims. I did too, though that’s no surprise as I’ve long been a fan of her [...]
The Later Rawls’s Critique of Libertarianism
By Kevin Vallier On August 3, 2012 · 29 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Liberalism, Libertarianism
John Rawls was a critic of libertarianism. This much is well known. What is less well known is Rawls’s criticism of libertarianism in Political Liberalism (which I’m rereading in preparation for a seminar I’m teaching this fall). The only direct discussion can be found in Lecture VII, “The Basic Structure as Subject,” [...]
Jerry Gaus’s The Order of Public Reason, described by the Notre Dame Review of Books as “the most complete and rigorous defense of classical liberalism available,” has just come out in paperback. While the hardback was an exorbitant $88, the paperback is a mere $33. You can even buy it [...]
Marriage Equality Unbound
By Roderick Long On July 12, 2012 · 30 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Book/Article Reviews, Current Events, Liberalism, Liberty, Social Justice, Toleration
Of possible interest to the Bleeding Heart Liberverse: my review at Reason.com of Elizabeth Brake’s Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law.
An excerpt:
For Brake, marriage not only should not be restricted to opposite-sex couples, or indeed to couples at all. It constitutes unjust discrimination, [...]
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