Justice is fairness.’ Rawls’ veil of ignorance reminds us to design societies we’d accept without knowing our place.

#Rawls #Justice #PoliticalPhilosophy

#Ungleichheit #KapitalismusKritik #FixCapitalism #TaxTheRich #EatTheRich #Rawls

Aus: Amlinger/Nachtwey (2025). Zerstörungslust. Elemente des demokratischen Faschismus. Suhrkamp. S.51f.

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#Liberalism, whatever you think of it, has shaped the Western world and is under attack right now. The #Economist has well-written a #History of liberalism. Worthwhile reading…

𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺: 𝗔 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆

From #Locke and the “social contract” to #Rawls and the “veil of ignorance”, here are the people, ideas and world-shaking events that made liberalism what it is, and isn't, today

https://www.economist.com/interactive/primers/liberalism/timeline via #TheEconomist

#Keynes #Hayek #Popper #Schumpeter #Ahrend #Rousseau #Marx #Nietzsche

Liberalism: A brief history

From Locke and the “social contract” to Rawls and the “veil of ignorance”, here are the people, ideas and world-shaking events that made liberalism what it is, and isn't, today

The Economist
Der Staat der Athener

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https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/04/the-west-is-bored-to-death

Superficial analysis, romantic remedy suggestions.

Instead the author should have looked into the psychological forces of our motivation (our basic psychological needs). That would be a step toward coming up with a more substantial diagnosis of our society troubles.

A correct analysis could lead to a more realistic plan to change the status quo.

#rawls #selfdeterminationtheory

The West is bored to death

Suppose Schopenhauer is right that life boils down to a flight from either boredom or pain. Insofar as the vast material abundance of wealthy, industrialised society has had an analgesic effect (there

New Statesman
mit Gerhart #Baum verliert die #FDP einen ihrer letzten, die den #Liberalismus -Begriff
nicht mit wirtschafts-liberalen Scheuklappen verengen,
sondern #Meinungsfreiheit und #Menschenrechte als Kern von
anspruchsvollem Liberalismus begreifen, und dabei erkennen,
dass #Wirtschaft-s-Liberalismus diesen Werten letztlich oft sogar zuwider läuft
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#Rawls #Demokratie #Gerechtigkeit #Fairness #GerhartBaum #Liberal #PoliticalLiberalism #sozialliberal

Been re-reading John #Rawls his A Theory of Justice and came across this:

"[Civil disobedience] tries to avoid the use of violence, especially against persons, not from the abhorrence of the use of force in principle, but because it is a final expression of one's case."

#CivilDisobedience #Activism #Philosophy #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary

Javier Milei, der Anarchokapitalismus und die zahlreichen heutigen "liberalen" Möchtegerntyrannen

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John #Rawls hat sich in den Diskussionen über seine Ideen meiner Ansicht nach ja viel weiter als notwendig in die konservative und neoliberale Ecke drängen lassen. Aber die Positionen seiner Anfänge erleben eine Widergeburt. Nicht nur Sandel baut darauf auf, auch Daniel Chandler z.B.. Gerechtigkeit kommt wieder in Mode, scheint mir. Ich habe noch Hoffnung für diese Welt.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/10/can-a-50-year-old-philosophy-help-make-democracy-better-today/

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL30C13C91CFFEFEA6

Can a 50-year-old philosophy help make democracy better today?

New book based on ideas of renowned Harvard scholar John Rawls argues it all comes down to fairness.

Harvard Gazette