Law & Society Blog

I just got back from a brief vacation in Toronto, which is a confusing and exciting place.

Ideology is incorrigibly interesting. For apathy is not an option in ethics, semantics, and society, since all three are essential to social life. All correspond to some social habits, and each are compelled by our nature; and habits, being a part of everyday life, tend to be hard to ignore. Admittedly, questions of ideology are […]

Is economic competition morally defensible?

Ben Nelson left the following thoughtful comment to my previous post:
My point in the previous post was that there is very little disagreement between consequentialists and deontologists. In it, I had argued on the basis of a certain story about how rights arise. In this post, I’ll try to solidify deontology as compatible with one […]