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SocialismsIn Chris Melenovsky (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Routledge. 2022.
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19No Community without SocialismPhilosophical Topics 48 (2): 1-21. 2020.As G. A. Cohen’s camping trip argument shows, community is an important value. But is there anything particularly socialist about it? Critics suggest not. Jason Brennan argues that we don’t need socialist institutions to secure community; capitalist ones will do just fine. Louis-Philippe Hodgson argues, in a similar spirit, that we don’t need explicitly socialist principles to secure community; standard-issue liberal egalitarian ones (like Rawls’s) suffice. But these critics are mistaken. Pace B…Read more
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74SocialismInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2016.Socialism Socialism is both an economic system and an ideology. A socialist economy features social rather than private ownership of the means of production. It also typically organizes economic activity through planning rather than market forces, and gears production towards needs satisfaction rather than profit accumulation. Socialist ideology … Continue reading Socialism →
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21James A. Chamberlain, Undoing Work, Rethinking Community: A Critique of the Social Function of Work (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018) (review)Critical Horizons 20 (4): 366-387. 2019.
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472Social Equality and the Duty to Participate in Personal and Political RelationshipsSouthwest Philosophy Review 33 (1): 33-41. 2017.
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53Putting Liberty in its Place: Rawlsian Liberalism without the LiberalismEuropean Journal of Philosophy 26 (1): 213-237. 2018.To be a liberal is, among other things, to grant basic liberties some degree of priority over other aspects of justice. But why do basic liberties warrant this special treatment? For Rawls, the answer has to do with the allegedly special connection between these freedoms and the ‘two moral powers’ of reasonableness and rationality. Basic freedoms are said to be preconditions for the development and exercise of these powers and are held to warrant priority over other justice-relevant values for t…Read more
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44Self-realization and justice: A liberal-perfectionist defense of the right to freedom from employmentContemporary Political Theory 15 (3). 2016.
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27Market Democracy: Land of Opportunity?Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 26 (3): 239-258. 2014.John Tomasi argues that aggressively pro-market, capitalist regimes can secure fair equality of opportunity—a level playing field—even as they honor people's thick economic liberties. The trick is to rely on markets to spread prosperity and high-quality healthcare and education to all. That done, each person will have fair opportunity. Or will she? In truth, Tomasi's “market-democratic” plan cannot bring genuinely fair opportunity to all, even at the level of ideal theory. Nor can it plausibly p…Read more
Samuel Arnold
Texas Christian University
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Texas Christian UniversityAssociate Professor
Areas of Specialization
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Socialism and Marxism |
John Rawls |
Equality |
Freedom and Liberty |
Liberalism |
Republicanism |