Sublime

Socrates—who, like Adam Smith, argued that people are generally good even without enforcement.

La liberté d’expression, la liberté de la presse, le respect de la vie privée et le droit au procès équitable ne sont rien d’autre que l’inscription de l’impératif kantien dans les institutions sociales, en veillant à ce qu’il soit très difficile de les menacer ou de les modifier. Le seul risque qui menace le système démocratique, c’est qu’un

Comme cela a déjà été suggéré, l’événement réside dans l’OPA réussie de l’extrême droite contemporaine sur le bon sens. En effet, la « trahison des clercs » dénoncée dans les médias Bolloré et ailleurs a ceci d’original qu’elle se caractérise par son anti-intellectualisme. Le militantisme supposé des chercheurs n’est pas mis en accusation au nom de

Sen is the father of the Capability Approach, a critical contribution to welfare economics which has been hugely influential since the 1980s. Instead of crude financial measures or naive hedonism, Sen argued that the highest good was the freedom to choose a life one has reason to value—to have options, and thus be able to live deliberately.

Classical economists have probably never left their laboratories and lecture halls to venture into the real world. Most people playing the Ultimatum Game reject very low offers because they are ‘unfair’. They prefer losing a dollar to looking like suckers. Since this is how the real world functions, few people make very low offers in the first

Mill held that truth emerges from an unfettered competition of ideas and that individual character is most improved when allowed to find its own way uncoerced. That vision was insufficient for 20th-century American liberalism.

For centuries, private attorneys have molded and adapted these legal modules to a changing roster of assets and have thereby enhanced their clients’ wealth. And states have supported the coding of capital by offering their coercive law powers to enforce the legal rights that have been bestowed on capital.