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Mill’s writings can be read as a strenuous attempt to reconcile individual rights with the utilitarian philosophy he inherited from his father and adopted from Bentham. His book On Liberty (1859) is the classic defense of individual freedom in the English-speaking world. Its central principle is that people should be free to do whatever they want,
... See moreMichael J. Sandel • Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
And for me faith is at least as much about possibility as it is about certainty.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
“The boundary between public and private is part of the conflict between public spheres. For example, until recently, only feminists though domestic violence was a public concern, rather than a private matter. Democratic publicity therefore requires positive guarantees of opportunities for minorities to convince others of what qualifies as common i
... See moreThe ideal, we might say, is to combine the best of what particularism and universalism have to offer (and demand): we care about everyone but we start local and we allow other people to be who they are. This is the dialectic that Jewish ethics at its best seeks to express.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
Liberalism is an ideology that contains seven political concepts that interact at its core: liberty, rationality, individuality, progress, sociability, the general interest, and limited and accountable power.
Michael Freeden • Liberalism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
the Collective Intelligence Project (CIP), Anthropic's recently released Claude3 model, considered by many to be the current state-of-the-art in GFMs, sourced the constitution used to steer model behavior using Polis.
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy

Americans want courts to protect minorities and defend liberties, and to defer to elected officials. We want arobust political life and one that is just.
Gerald N. Rosenberg • The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? Second Edition (American Politics and Political Economy Series)
Political philosophy
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