
Technology as Ontology, with Michael Hanby
Beatrice Institute Podcast
The Metaphysics of Political Philosophy
Maurice Blondell stated that politics is metaphysics in action however the foundations of liberal democracy especially when we think of folks like Rawls and Dworkin is that liberalism is a form of government that expressly ignores metaphysics. But we know that is not true so what are the implicit metaphysics that liberalism has smuggled in whether liberal theorists like to admit it or not. The collective pursuit of scientific and technological progress that we are as much bacon's new Atlantis as Hobbes Leviathan or Locke second treatise or the federalist papers is not accidental. We valorize power or possibility through our conception of freedom and rights. Right to be born you know my freedom constrained before I have the