Freedom and Flourishing
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Showing posts with label
progress
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Monday, March 18, 2024
Why should peacefulness be viewed as a characteristic of a good society?
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In the most popular post on my blog, written in 2009, I asked: What are the characteristics of a good society? I began the post by sugges...
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Is ecological justice also a mirage?
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David Schmidtz advocates “ecological justice” in his book, Living Together : Inventing Moral Science. Although Schmidtz does not refer to ...
Thursday, February 15, 2024
What makes a narrative good?
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I asked myself the question posed above as I was reading Mich èle Lamont’s book , Seeing Others , How to Redefine Worth in a Divided World...
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
What determines how much liberty people enjoy in different countries?
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An obvious answer to the question posed above is that governments determine how much liberty people enjoy. But that response may be too gli...
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 16, 2023
What is holding back the growth of economic opportunities in PNG?
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Why should you care about the economic opportunities available to the people of Papua New Guinea? Perhaps some readers didn’t even know ...
Monday, April 10, 2023
Can cottage industries exist in a machine age?
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J C Kumarappa posed that question his book, Economy of Permanence, which was first published in 1945. He argued that in the final analysis...
Sunday, January 22, 2023
How did the gold fever of the 1850s affect Australian Aborigines?
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I began thinking about this question while reading Michael O’Rourke’s recently published book, Passages to the Northwest, The Europe they ...
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...
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