April 28, 2014
CFP: Symposium on Ethical Limits to Markets
A reader passes along the following Call For Papers, which I thought might be of interest to you bunch: CALL FOR PAPERS Symposium on the Ethical limits to markets To…
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April 22, 2014
Inequality or Poverty?
To follow up on Bas’s recent post, I’d like to briefly revisit the most powerful argument for thinking that poverty rather than material inequality per se is what matters morally:…
April 21, 2014
Who Owns the Land?
A topical issue in the global justice literature is territory. Mainstream writers have taken the position that collective entities, including states, are the ultimate title holders of land and resources…
April 16, 2014
“They’ll Mess It Up!”: Not an Objection to a Moral Theory
I posted some initial thoughts about lying to voters in a recent post. In my book The Ethics of Voting, I argue that most voting is wrongful. In the recent post, I…
April 15, 2014
Ayn Rand’s Theory of Rights – A Critique
It usually begins with Ayn Rand, wrote Jerome Tuccille back in 1972, and so it did with me. My first exposure to libertarianism was Rand’s novel, The Fountainhead, and it didn’t take long…
April 14, 2014
Bleeding Heart Utilitarian Libertarianism
With my first post as an official member of BHL, I’ll take a big picture approach and briefly explain why I think utilitarianism should be attractive to bleeding heart libertarians….