Tag: justice

• What's So Special about the 1%?

  4 months ago

  Will Wilkinson in The Moral Sciences Club

  My post discussing Brian Leiter's proposal to seize 75% of the 1%'s wealth reminded me of a Michael Kinsley piece I meant to comment on last month, but never got around to. Here's Kinsley: My problem with Obama’s ["this isn't about class war"] speech is that the president muddles together a ... 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

• The killing of Troy Davis

  8 months ago

  Will Wilkinson in The Moral Sciences Club

  The state of Georgia just killed Troy Davis. Which is to say, a number of individual human beings acting under the imagined authority of the state of Georgia killed Troy Davis. They strapped him to a gurney, injected him with a lethal chemical, and he died from it. Davis was convicted of murdering ... Read More