Ep 186: What Have We Done With Our Independence?
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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Adam Smith's Moral Philosophy
I won't say it's anti liberal, but there has always been this construction of liberalism as somehow being associated with a selfish, possessive individualism. And what i think oxford did for me was a revive a kind of interest in the deep moral foundations of liberalism. Adam smith ind the scottish enlightenment, and particularly on adam smith's moral philosophy. The wealth of nations is really also as much about protecting the state from concentrations of power as anything else. John roll's theory of justice was sort of our bible. I went through a complicated relationship with that book at the time because it was so dominant. We would always jocular write another paper on rogs rogs
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