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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, [...]
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:
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 [...]
Human Capitalism’s Inconvenient Implications
By Brink Lindsey On October 9, 2012 · 45 Comments · In Book/Article Reviews, Current Events, Economics
The argument I make in Human Capitalism (see this prior post for a quick summary) raises uncomfortable questions across the ideological spectrum – and the corresponding philosophical spectrum as well. I’ll start by reviewing how my analysis confounds some of the prevailing assumptions of both libertarians and [...]
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 [...]
[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.]
Let’s start with my points of agreement with Tomasi’s refreshing
Until recently, I had only read the first two books of Hayek’s grand trilogy Law, Legislation and Liberty. People told me that the third book was the least interesting. The real action, they said, was in the first two books. I decided to see for myself [...]
Moral Fanaticism and the Hope of Public Reason: A Reply to Flanigan
By Kevin Vallier On March 23, 2012 · 73 Comments · In Liberalism, Libertarianism, Liberty, Toleration
My friend and co-blogger, Jessica Flanigan, threw down the gauntlet last week over the truth of public reason liberalism, the popular version of liberal political theory that I used to argue against the contraception mandate. This is my reply.
Public reason liberalism (PRL) holds that a coercive law L is justified [...]
Milton Friedman’s Classical Liberalism
By Matt Zwolinski On March 22, 2012 · 70 Comments · In Book/Article Reviews, Consequentialism, Economics, Libertarianism
Inspired by Pete Boettke’s semi-recent post, I’ve just finished re-reading Milton Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom. It is a great work articulating and defending liberalism “in its original sense.”
It is also a work that illustrates [...]
A Defense of the Unreasonable
By Jessica Flanigan On March 16, 2012 · 51 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Democracy, Liberalism, Toleration
I really enjoyed Kevin’s recent discussion of the ‘contraception mandate,’ particularly because his posts highlight a deep and important divide in political philosophy that I think merits attention. Kevin sketches the following view about whether a law is justified:
“(The) principle of public justification (PPJ) …holds that a coercive law L is only justified [...]
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