Freedom and Flourishing

  Just as I was reading the final chapters of William Easterly’s book, Violent Saviours : The West, the Rest, and Capitalism Without Consent...

  Some readers will be wondering what the question means. What is this daimon? How does it relate to eudaimonia? How can you identify your d...

 This article is about my personal experience in attempting to understand social welfare, the concept of a good society, and my role as an e...

  Adam Smith practiced humanomics. It came naturally to him. The famous pioneer of economic science did not need to pretend that humans have...

  This question arose as I was reading about the theme of this year’s NAIDOC week. NAIDOC week, held this year from 4-11 July, celebrates th...

A series of recent articles on this blog has shown that some societies offer better opportunities than others for individuals to hav...

Living in harmony with nature is one of five basic goods of a flourishing human. That is the opinion expressed in an earlier article ...

A capacity for wise and well-informed self-direction was identified in a recent post on this blog as one of five basic goods that a flo...

A good place to begin is with the discussion of the basic goods of “the good life”, by Robert and Edward Skidelsky in their book Ho...