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On Travel through Darkness; On Letter 57
I would like to think that encountering the prominent role of Seneca’s Letter 75 in Foucault’s argument on parrhesia as described by Daniele Lorenzini’s…
Mar 27
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On Travel through Darkness; On Letter 57
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On Hayek and Smith on the/a Great Society
Regular readers may enjoy Lea Cantor’s (Cambridge) review in Mind of Neglected Classics of Philosophy: Volume 2 (OUP, 2022), that I edited. It’s a very…
Mar 25
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On Hayek and Smith on the/a Great Society
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On Academic Freedom and Institutional Neutrality (Jacob T. Levy)
Regular readers know that Jacob Levy (McGill) and Shannon Dea (Regina) are my lode-stones in my unfolding understanding of academic freedom. They have…
Mar 21
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On Academic Freedom and Institutional Neutrality (Jacob T. Levy)
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The Sooty Empiric's Suspicions of Liberalism reconsidered.
I am probably not alone in welcoming the return of Liam Kofi Bright to blogging after a longish hiatus. Writing as The Sooty Empiric, he takes on the…
Mar 20
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The Sooty Empiric's Suspicions of Liberalism reconsidered.
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On Gaus and Kukathas on the nature of an Open Society, and toleration.
As I have suggested before, I consid6er Chandran Kukathas (who is a good friend of this blog) as the standard-bearer of what we may call…
Mar 19
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RIP Howard Stein January 21, 1929-8 March, 2024
Plato never wrote the hinted-at sequel to the Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman, to have been called the Philosopher. I have long cherished the…
Mar 18
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RIP Howard Stein January 21, 1929-8 March, 2024
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On Williamson, Kitcher, and the uptake of analytic philosophy
It’s a bit surprising to see Timothy Williamson (2024, Philosophia) start his rather critical review of Philip Kitcher’s (2023) What’s the Use of…
Mar 13
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Smith and Montesquieu on a Platonic passage, and the fate of Spontaneous Order.
Adam Smith mentions Plato a number of times in the Wealth of Nations, and uses his writings as source on ancient education practices. But to the best of…
Mar 12
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Adam Smith on Commercial Society; On Paul Sagar's Adam Smith Reconsidered, Pt 2
In Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith starts his chapter on the ‘origin of money,’ as follows: Where the division of labour has been once thoroughly…
Mar 11
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Adam Smith on Commercial Society; On Paul Sagar's Adam Smith Reconsidered, Pt 2
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Smith on the art of government, corruption, and tax policy
A few days ago I noted (recall) that Adam Smith starts the Wealth of Nations with his chapter on the division of labor that introduces the moral (and…
Mar 8
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Humboldt and Mill on harmful speech, liberty, and shunning
Last week I gave a recorded talk on Adam Smith as political thinker- in Ghent (in Dutch) that can be found here. I expect my blogging to be a bit sparse…
Mar 7
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State Political Epistemology in (and at the start of) Wealth of Nations
Chapter 4 of the first Book of Smith’s (1776) Wealth of Nations, “Of the Origin and Use of Money,” is much quoted and criticized for its stylized…
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