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Free Thoughts

The Philosophy of Gerald Gaus (with Kevin Vallier and Chad Van Schoelandt)

Sep 25, 2020
52:28

We invited Kevin Vallier and Chad Van Schoelandt to the show to talk about their teacher and mentor, Gerald Gaus. Gerry was not like a lot of public reason types who are just trying to identify the conditions for something as abstract and distant as a well‐ordered society. Gaus started very much from where we are in a way that is much more like Hayek than Rawls.


How do you justify rules? How do you understand morality in order to make rules?



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