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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 [...]
What’s in a Word?
By Fernando Teson On December 21, 2012 · 18 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Liberty, Social Justice
Here, just in time for holiday fun, is some old-fashioned ordinary-language, probably worthless, rumination.
It is often said, when criticizing institutions, that such and such political arrangement systematically hurts the poor and vulnerable. But how is that different from saying that such and such political arrangement hurts the poor and vulnerable? What is the meaning [...]
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 [...]
The review is part of a symposium I’ve edited for The Journal of Politics; it includes reviews by Sheri Berman, Eric MacGilvray, Robert S. Taylor, and myself, and a reply from John Tomasi.
Tomasi characterizes “market democracy as a research program,” (103) and hopes that it is sufficiently capacious to include those who object to [...]
In a market economy, no one literally distributes the wealth. But that doesn’t mean the concept of social justice is nonsense. Matt explains why:
Property-Owning Democracy is Unworkable
By Kevin Vallier On December 5, 2012 · 13 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Liberalism, Social Justice
In my last two posts, I explained Rawls’s idea of a property-owning democracy (POD) as elaborated by Thad Williamson and Martin O’Neill in much of their recent work, including this Boston Review piece. In this post, I argue that property-owning democracy is unworkable. I shall make two arguments to [...]
Roderick Long on Race, Gender, Equality and Libertarianism
By Matt Zwolinski On November 22, 2012 · 6 Comments · In Left-libertarianism, Libertarianism, Social Justice
“We don’t have the right to subordinate other people to our ends or treat them as objects for our uses,” says Roderick Long. “And that is a fundamental kind of equality that I think is at the heart of libertarianism.”
Property-Owning Democracy
By Kevin Vallier On November 20, 2012 · 16 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Liberty, Rights Theory, Social Justice
IN a recent Boston Review article, philosophers Martin O’Neill and Thad Williamson develop and defend Rawls’s ideal economic regime, property-owning democracy. Given that these two authors have recently put out an anthology devoted to working out the details of this ideal, I thought it would be worthwhile to offer a [...]
“Aiming at justice” and justice
By Andrew Cohen On November 19, 2012 · 20 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Book/Article Reviews, Libertarianism, Social Justice, Symposium on Free Market Fairness
Well, its been a while. Having caught up with a few projects (at least for the moment), I thought I’d wet my feet once again in the blogosphere with this, inspired by discussing John Tomasi’s Free Market Fairness with graduate students, especially Travis Holmes.
High liberals, Tomasi claims, believe that “To ‘realize’ justice as fairness, [...]
Hasnas on Tomasi
By Matt Zwolinski On November 19, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Book/Article Reviews, Libertarianism, Social Justice
The latest issue of Cato’s Regulation magazine contains a brief but worthwhile review of John Tomasi’s Free Market Fairness. The review, written by John Hasnas of Georgetown University, is generally sympathetic, but is quite critical on a few points in ways that I suspect will resonate with those of [...]
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