June 29, 2015
More on Polygamy
Chris Freiman asks: why not polygamy? For related discusison, see also my 2012 review of Elizabeth Brake’s book on the subject, which advocates extending marital law not only to but…
Posts filed under John Rawls
March 31, 2015
On Systematic Justifications of Private Property in Rawls, Locke, and Nozick
When students first learn about Rawls’s difference principle, they often assume Rawls intends the principle to be applied directly to every transaction. I can’t accept a pay raise unless this…
August 07, 2013
Property-Owning Democracy Reviewed
As regular BHL readers know, I did a big series of blog posts on Rawlsian property-owning democracy last November. My criticisms were a response to some articles on property-owning democracy…
June 19, 2013
Rawls for Libertarians
My last two posts have explained what I take to be Rawls’s philosophical project and the main errors in that project. Now I can state in a relatively straightforward fashion…
June 12, 2013
John Rawls: For School Choice, Against the Minimum Wage
[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.] When looking at…
June 07, 2013
Rawlsian Trash
I love Rawls more than anyone else on this blog; perhaps a lot more. But sometimes you have to take out the trash and save the baby from the bathwater….