Tag: john rawls

• States, Markets, and Basic Liberties

  about 1 month ago

  Will Wilkinson in The Moral Sciences Club

  Ned Resnikoff picks up on my old post, via a terrific recent one by Daniel Little, on the radicalism of John Rawls' position on economic liberty: If we’ve to fairly evaluated Rawls’ decision to include all of those [political and civil] rights while excluding things like (in Wilkinson’s words ... Read More

• Occupy Wall Street and the deradicalized Rawls

  7 months ago

  Will Wilkinson in The Moral Sciences Club

  At the New York Times' Opinionator blog, Steven Mazie urges Occupy Wall Street to take inspiration from the late, great political philosopher John Rawls: Rawls’s boldest claim — that inequality in society is only justified if its least well-off members fare better than they would under any ... Read More

• Capitalists, workers and "natural" contributions to production

  8 months ago

  Will Wilkinson in The Moral Sciences Club

  In an illuminating recent paper, "Capitalism in the Classical and High Liberal Tradition" [$$$], University of Pennsylvania philosopher Samuel Freeman seeks to offer some justification for the secondary status conferred upon economic rights and liberties within what he calls the "High Liberal ... Read More