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John Rawls laid out much philosophical theory dedicated to the conditions under which a socially just society might be organized. In this, he set out a universalist thought experiment in which a socially just society would be one in which an individual given a choice would be equally happy to be born into any social milieu or identity group.
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
as our culture changes, our ability to make choices about how to move will also be called into question, as will our expectations for what roles technology will ← xi | xii →play in our lives.
John A. McArthur • Digital Proxemics: How Technology Shapes the Ways We Move (Digital Formations Book 110)
Il peut paraître étonnant qu’un homme qui avait directement participé au processus d’expropriation des biens des Juifs allemands se mue en ardent défenseur de la propriété ; mais ce n’est ni par amnésie ni par repentance qu’Abs endosse ce rôle. Dans son discours de San Francisco, il ne manque pas de soulever la question épineuse de Cortney et Röpke
... See moreQuinn Slobodian • Les Globalistes: Une histoire intellectuelle du néolibéralisme (French Edition)
Friedrich Hayek’s book The Fatal Conceit: Errors of Socialism expressed with clarity and authority what I had long felt but was unable to express, namely the unwisdom of powerful intellects, including Albert Einstein, when they believed that a powerful brain can devise a better system and bring about more “social justice” than what historical evolu
... See moreGraham Allison, Ali Wyne, Robert D. Blackwill, Henry A. Kissinger • Lee Kuan Yew
Individual rights should not be rolled back but rather made concrete and relational by linking them to obligations towards others.