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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sigh.
By Jacob Levy On November 21, 2012 · 16 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Current Events, Libertarianism
Brian Leiter, who often mocks the ignorant and semiliterate invocations of philosophical ideas that bounce around the media, links approvingly [see his response in comments] to the following claim that manages to lower my already-low estimation of Elliot Spitzer’s intelligence.
The worldviews of Obama and Romney are really proxies for the theoretical [...]
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 [...]
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,” [...]
[Editor's Note: This essay is part of a symposium on John Tomasi's Free Market Fairness. For an introduction to the symposium, click here. For a list of all posts in the symposium, click here.]
Elizabeth Anderson opens her post by laying out the distinctive normative commitments of market democracy. She then announces: [...]
[Editor's Note: This essay is part of a symposium on John Tomasi's Free Market Fairness. For an introduction to the symposium, click here. For a list of all posts in the symposium, click here.]
I am grateful to Matt Zwolinski and Bleeding Heart Libertarians for hosting this symposium on Free [...]
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