Freedom and Flourishing
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individualism
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Wednesday, June 7, 2023
To what extent do international differences in economic freedom reflect people's values?
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This is a companion piece to the preceding post in which I considered the extent to which international differences in personal freedom r...
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
To what extent do international differences in personal freedom reflect people's values?
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The accompanying graph shows that personal freedom tends to be greatest in countries where people hold the most emancipative values (on av...
Tuesday, May 2, 2023
Is Vipassana meditation consistent with self-acceptance?
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Vipassana is an ancient form of meditation based on practice of equanimity in observation of physical sensations and thoughts. As people who...
Sunday, January 8, 2023
Does the "Politics of Being" support progress?
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“Politics of Being” is title of a recently published book by Thomas Legrand. The subtitle is “Wisdom and science for a new development pa...
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Did Enlightenment thinkers believe that reason could illuminate all phenomena?
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When I began to think about David Friedrich’s painting “Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog”, there seemed to be something odd about it. The pai...
Wednesday, February 9, 2022
Is "scout mindset" a worthy objective of personal development?
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If someone had mentioned “scout mindset” to me a week ago, I would probably have thought they were referring to mottos of the scouting mov...
Sunday, January 30, 2022
Would a good society seek to maximize a social welfare function?
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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...
Thursday, November 25, 2021
How useful is the WELLBY concept in assessing the benefits and costs of alternative policies?
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There are good reasons why public policy discussions often revolve around the benefits and costs of alternative policies. Discussions that...
Thursday, October 21, 2021
Would Chinese people accept that human flourishing is inherently individualistic?
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The question I have posed for myself has been prompted by a reader of my book, Freedom, Progress, and Human Flourishing . He asked how I...
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