May 28, 2013
Effective Altruism for BHL’s
In Peter Singer’s new TED talk, he tries to answer the question of how to give most effectively. The talk starts with a short summary of his famous argument for…
Posts filed under John Rawls
April 26, 2013
John Rawls, Margaret Thatcher, and Property Owning Democracy
[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…
December 31, 2012
Property-Owning Democracy is Authoritarian
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…
December 20, 2012
Property-Owning Democracy is Unjust, Free-Market Fairness is Not
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…
December 05, 2012
Property-Owning Democracy is Unworkable
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…
November 28, 2012
Why Property-Owning Democracy?
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…