How to Deal With a Reverse Society

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The most controversial and important contribution of roles was the derivation of a difference principle. But to day, when we debate about rules, in a way, the difference principle seems nearly irrelevant. What's at the centre of our debates is how do you deal with a reverse society? How do you sustain a common scheme of what you would call social co operation? And so the question then shifts to can we derive the right set of views about how to mediate between people these fundamentally different conceptions of what the good life is?

Robert P. George is an American legal scholar and political philosopher. The McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, George is considered one of the foremost conservative intellectuals in America, and advocates a theory of natural law consistent with Catholic belief. With Cornel West, he authored a statement on “Truth Seeking, Democracy, and Freedom of Thought and Expression.”

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Robert P. George discuss the political philosophy of John Rawls, why democratic republics can’t function without free speech, and what relevance the first principles of conservatism do or don't retain today.

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