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66 | What's Left of Equality? Between Opportunity and Flourishing

What's Left of Philosophy

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The Lack of a Social Theory

I get this feeling in political philosophy, a lot of the time that is that where you're just doing normative theory in a vacuum. What would it actually take just some sense of like, what how society would have to be so incredibly arranged for any of these ideals to have any teeth whatsoever? I think one of the things that's symptomatic is that she never at any point says anything or even points toward the fact that socialism is also a theory of an egalitarian theory of power. Because then you, if you have an account of that, then it stops feeling to me is, "Why can't we have"

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