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Rawls Meets Bentham
Steven Landsburg writes: Paul Krugman is at it again, casting aspersions on everyone who opposes extended unemployment benefits while offering absolutely no positive argument for those benefits. Let me...
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On Self-Ownership and Desert
INTRODUCTION Fernando Teson, one of the Bleeding Heart Libertarians, addresses self-ownership: Self-ownership is the property right that a person has over her natural assets, that is, over her mind and...
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Social Justice vs. Liberty
The original position is a central feature of John Rawls’s social contract account of justice, “justice as fairness,” set forth in A Theory of Justice (TJ). It is designed to be a fair and impartial...
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I have never understood the high esteem in which John Rawls‘s “original position” is held by many who profess political philosophy. Well, I understand that the original position supports redistribution...
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