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The government–robber comparison: A long‐standing tradition beyond avowed libertarianism

open access: yesEconomic Affairs, EarlyView.
Abstract A government differs from a robber, but they share the common feature of initiating coercion. This similarity has been noticed by libertarians as well as within a distinct scholarly tradition and as a recurring theme throughout Western philosophy.
Brian Mandeville
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Amphibian Habits: Freedom, Death, and History in Hegel's Account Of Second Nature

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Hegel's concept of habit is key to his account of social freedom. But it also appears preclude free reflection on social norms. Recent readers have either minimized this problem or concluded from it that social freedom necessarily implies new forms of unfreedom. This paper aims to avoid the latter conclusion while taking seriously its critical
Eskil Elling
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Hegel and Utopia

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT G.W.F. Hegel is usually held to be anti‐utopian in his political philosophy. I aim to challenge that standard reading, outlining and defending a more positive account of his relation to utopianism. The rational state described in Hegel's Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts (1820) is shown to fit an uncontroversial account of utopia without ...
David Leopold
wiley   +1 more source

Kant's Dialectic of Enlightenment

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Kant's moral thought emphasizes both our ability to make adequate, immediate moral judgment, as well as our deep‐seated forms of self‐entrapment. Strikingly, these forms of self‐entrapment are not simply the result of reason being overpowered by forces external to it, but arise out of reason itself, as pathological versions of otherwise ...
Laurenz Ramsauer
wiley   +1 more source

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