Freedom and Flourishing

  David Schmidtz advocates “ecological justice” in his book, Living Together : Inventing Moral Science. Although Schmidtz does not refer to ...

I began thinking about this question as I was reading Ronald Beiner’s recent book, Dangerous Minds . Beiner’s main point seems to be that ri...

A  statement  made last year by Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, marking the 70 th  anniversary of the Uni...

This rather long post follows on from one in which I asked how we got from natural law to natural rights. In case you are wondering, the...

Readers who don’t recognise the faces depicted in my amateurish artwork might be thinking that the question is absurd because opposite...

‘Again, trade is a social act. Whoever undertakes to sell any description of goods to the public, does what affects the interests of other p...

In my last post I suggested that nearly everyone would agree that a good society has the following characteristics: · institutions t...

When I recently re-read John Galt’s speech (in “Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand) I was reminded of Rand’s view that the mystics of spirit, who be...

J S Mill wrote: “The laws and conditions of the Production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional ...

I have now finished reading “The Pursuit of Unhappiness” by Dan Haybron and haven’t modified my view that it usually does people good to tak...