Showing posts with label progress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label progress. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Should Libertarians be Attempting to Influence Culture: A Discussion with Winton Bates and Chris Matthew Sciabarra (II)

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  As the graphic might suggest, the focus of the second edition of our collaborative efforts is Chris Matthew Sciabarra’s view of the role o...
Monday, July 8, 2024

Can utopian thinking be dialectical?

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  This illustration of the fictional island of Utopia was apparently in the first edition of Thomas More’s book, Utopia , published in 1516...
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 ...