Ethics Quiz
Jan 29[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] If the difference between an innocent person’s going free and that innocent person’s serving a ten-year prison sentence depended on your say-so, and if you could set that person free with zero risk to yourself, what would you do?
Vigil Injustus Non Est Vigil
Jan 28Socrates held that no one counts a genuine judge unless he judges justly. He also held, as did Augustine, Aquinas, and Spooner, that no law counts as a genuine law unless it too is just. A 75-year-old Florida grandmother has now found her way to the same idea. Asked why she didn’t “respect” a police [...]
The Radiance that Streams Immortally from the Door of the Law
Jan 28[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] $500 and change will buy you a copy of this massive treatise in which two of my articles on Greek philosophy of law appear. Or you can read them online for free here: Socrates and Socratic Philosophers of Law Hellenistic Philosophers of Law Two caveats: 1. The first article is [...]
The Empire Rises Again
Jan 28You may have noticed an error message when trying to reach my blog these past several days. Yahoo assured me that they were trying to fix the problem. It seems they have – for the moment, knock on wood, and all that. I was unable to cross-post here my recent L&P post Strangers on a [...]
Rights, Racism, and Responsibility
Jan 23[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] Several people have asked for copies of my working papers “Why Libertarians Believe There Is Only One Right,” “The Racist Syndrome: Sartre, Rand, and the Will to Concreteness,” and “Stakeholder Theory for Libertarians: A Rothbardian Defense of Corporate Social Responsibility,” so I’ve decided to post them online. These drafts were [...]
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