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Property as power: A theory of representation

open access: yes
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Rutger Claassen
wiley   +1 more source

Trust in Regulation in a Time of Revolution

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines trust in regulation as a core value and precondition of the modern liberal democratic regulatory state. It develops a concept of justified trust in regulation, grounded in regulatory trustworthiness—honesty, competence, and reliability—rather than in proxies such as partisan loyalty, blind faith, obedience, or resignation.
Cristie Ford
wiley   +1 more source

The Classical Liberal Theory of State : An Idea Analysis of Classical Liberalism

open access: yes, 2019
This essay investigates the classical liberal theory of state. The purpose is to showcase that adherence to classical liberalism does not entail opposing all state actions outside the realm of preserving property rights and securing the rule of law.
openaire   +1 more source

Stigma and Rawlsian Liberalism

open access: yes
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Euan Allison
wiley   +1 more source

Free Expression and Coerced Choice: The Role of the Army and Lord Protector in Miltonic Freedom

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholarly approaches to understanding freedom in Milton's prose tend to connect Milton's ideas to either liberalism or republicanism. Neither of these approaches is sufficient because freedom, for Milton, was not a single concept. Milton explored political and religious freedom very differently.
Benjamin Woodford
wiley   +1 more source

Toward a “strong” normativity of fear in Hans Jonas and Aristotle

open access: yesThe Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract What does it mean to say that one “ought” to undergo an emotion? In The Imperative of Responsibility, Hans Jonas provocatively asserts that twentieth‐century citizens “ought” to fear for the well‐being of future generations. I argue that Jonas's demand is not straightforwardly reducible to claims about the fittingness, expedience, or aretaic ...
Magnus Ferguson
wiley   +1 more source

6. Classical Economics from Smith to Malthus

open access: yes, 1958
In 1776, several years after his good friend James Watt had obtained the first patent covering the steam engine and several years before the process for making wrought iron was devised, Adam Smith (1723-1790), a retired professor of moral philosophy at ...
Bloom, Robert L.   +6 more
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Is Classical Liberalism the Source of Libertarianism?

open access: yes, 2016
In this paper I compare John Locke’s and Murray N. Rothbard’s theories of property. The main aim of that comparison is to show that Locke’s theory of property, which seems to be crucial for contemporary libertarians, cannot be the foundation for the libertarian theory. The corollary is that Locke’s theory, resp.
openaire   +2 more sources

Moral Assumptions in Causal Thought: Poverty and Perversity

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Causal attributions, framings, and ideas shape moral judgments. Sociologists have long highlighted these causality‐to‐morality processes, showing how causality underpins blame and moral responsibility. The reverse process of morality‐to‐causality, where moral assumptions influence causal attributions, has been studied less.
Lukas Posselt
wiley   +1 more source

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