April 05, 2012
Contract Liberalisms and Their Enemies
Over the last week, I’ve been mulling over our extended discussion of public reason liberalism. In response to Andrew’s post, I thought I’d try to distinguish between contract liberalisms (of…
Posts filed under social contract theory
February 21, 2012
A Libertarian Rehabilitation of Hobbes
I think that libertarian hostility to Hobbes has blinded them to one of his deepest insights, an insight that in many ways makes him less authoritarian than many of the…
February 15, 2012
Contractualism
I think the right political theory is some form of contractualism. In this post, I will explain what I mean by contractualism and address some common but confused objections to…
February 13, 2012
Political Philosophy’s Fundamental Question
In this post, my aim is to identify political philosophy’s fundamental question. Yes, I want to attempt this in a blog post, so my answer will undoubtedly be radically incomplete….
February 07, 2012
The Good in the Contract: A Reply to Will
Our discussion of the connection between eudaimonism, contractualism and libertarianism continues, and now good ole’ Will Wilkinson has joined it. Will makes two basic points in his post: (i) eudaimonism…