Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Etc.
Posted in politics on Feb 20th, 2008
The final of the three responses to de Jasay’s essay have been posted (my summaries here, here, and here), and the interlocutors have moved into the second and third rounds of response.
It is not necessary to have read de Jasay’s essay to read Barnett’s. It’s not really a response to the essay, but to the [...]
Posted in politics on Feb 15th, 2008
Munger responds to de Jasay’s essay (summarized here). Gaus was the first (summarized here), and we still await a response from Randy Barnett.
I think Munger’s essay is more relevant than Gaus’s. Or maybe it’s that I like Munger’s thinking better than Gaus’s (in their respective articles, that is. I’ve never read anything else by them).
Munger [...]
Gaus is the first to respond to de Jasay’s article (which I summarized here). His primary claim seems to be that de Jasay’s talk of “standards” (or concerns which seem to involve no “interest”) should be expanded to include our “evolved” human “moral sense.”
Government can only grow so far as people feel is morally acceptable. [...]
Posted in Philosophy, politics on Feb 14th, 2008
The Cato Institute has a fascinating project going called “Cato Unbound,” in which one scholar writes an article, others scholars are asked to respond, and general readers are invited to respond as well on their own sites.
This month’s “lead essay” is by Anthony de Jasay, and is entitled, “Government, Bound or Unbound?” The Cato [...]
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