May 01, 2012
Dang Nabbit
Dang Nabbit writes in the comments: Jason, First of all, “hard” libertarian is a semiotic device you guys invented to make your fusionist selves look better. Please name one of these…
Year: 2012
May 01, 2012
Two Marxist Premises
Consider the following Marxist argument: Economic freedom and private property in the means of production immiserate almost everyone. If some economic regime X immiserates almost everyone, then, pro tanto, X…
May 01, 2012
Some responses
To Jacob: 1. You can think social justice matters without claiming that social justice (or even justice more broadly) is the first virtue of institutions. 2. I don’t take it…
April 30, 2012
Against Social Justice
Jason Brennan writes Social justice is a moral standard by which some people judge political and economic institutions. Advocates of social justice believe the moral justification of our institutions depends…
April 30, 2012
Rawls on Economists and Philosophers
My colleague David Levy recently alerted me to a discussion in Rawls’s Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy (2007, p. 162) on the intellectual relationship between economists and philosophers. As…
April 30, 2012
Zeroing In on “Social Justice”
In an earlier post, I gave the following generic definition of social justice: Social justice is a moral standard by which some people judge political and economic institutions. Advocates of…