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The Straussian Moment
gwern.netWhen we talk about justice today, we almost always find ourselves talking about rights we believe are entrenched in nature and have been enshrined in our founding documents. This language reflects a liberal conception of human action and interaction, casting us as rational agents who reach agreements with one another through calculation and negotia
... See morePeople are not monads. A real, live human self is always already partial to certain, select others. Morality needs to take this essential fact about human selfhood into account rather than pretend to override it.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
Any concept of justice that hopes to win broad support in the real world has to be political in these three ways: to be narrow in scope; to be free-standing of any comprehensive moral doctrine; and to be grounded in widely shared ideas drawn from the public political culture. The original position ensures that Rawls’s principles possess these featu
... See moreDaniel Chandler • Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society
Notes on “Taste” | Are.na Editorial
