Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like? - Daniel Chandler
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Despite the enormous problems we face and widespread dissatisfaction with the status quo, it’s surprisingly hard to find a coherent vision of what a better, fairer society would look like.
Free and Equal provides that vision. In this hugely ambitious and exhilarating debut, philosopher and economist Daniel Chandler argues that the ideas we need are hiding in plain sight, in the work of the twentieth century’s greatest political philosopher, John Rawls. Although they have transformed philosophy, his ideas have had little impact on politics - until now. In Free and Equal, Chandler shows us how they offer an intuitive yet powerful framework for addressing the urgent challenges we face, and an unparalleled resource for developing a transformative progressive politics.
Taking Rawls’s humane and egalitarian liberalism as his starting point, and drawing on evidence from the social sciences and on inspiring examples from around the world, Chandler builds a careful and ultimately irresistible case for fundamentally re-designing our basic institutions - from how we can protect basic freedoms of speech, religion and sexuality whilst transcending the culture wars, to a completely new way of funding political parties and the media, to an economic agenda that would give everyone a fair share not just of income and wealth, but of power and control, dignity and self-respect.
This is a book brimming with hope and possibility - a much-needed alternative to the cynicism that pervades our politics, setting out a ‘realistic utopia’ that can galvanise people from all walks of life. Free and Equal has the potential not only to transform contemporary debate, but to offer a touchstone for a modern, egalitarian liberalism for many years to come, cementing Rawls’s place in political discourse, and firmly establishing Chandler as a vital new voice for our time.
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This post has 5 comments with rating of 5/5
July 1st, 2023
Freedom and equality are anti-thetical.
July 1st, 2023
I know striving for it based on the way things ’should’ be will lead to a great number of expectations which will lead to endless disappointment.
If you look at when we peaked at being the better angels of our nature, it will match peak net energy per capita.
Many things within the human spirit imagined a better world & fossil fuels made it as real as our imperfect selves could do, which was a massive improvement & elimination of loads of suffering that was a mainstay for all of history until the fossil fuel age or scientific revolution if you like. Super cheap & abundant energy (10 million years of stored sunlight) made most of the greatest human achievement happen, but now we are past peak net energy, AKA declining.
Nothing major has been done since the 1970’s.
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*The Cult of Civilization*
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let me now condemn myself in the court of civil opinion by making the charge that most people on Earth are members of a dangerous cult whose central beliefs seem every bit as bizarre to one who has escaped the thought prison, but that are seldom questioned and even fiercely defended. This post offers ten heretical statements that seem obvious to me, but tend to produce emotionally charged reactions by members of the cult of civilization. Watch yourself, now.
Let’s start by just unloading them all, in compact form, each point to be briefly unpacked in what follows. Some of the points essentially follow from previous ones, but are powerful (jarring) enough to deserve their own statement.
Humans are not the reason for all of creation: not the end point or goal in this universe.
A human life is no more sacred than that of a wolf (as just one example).
Our civilization is not any sort of destiny: not he only or best way to organize ourselves on this planet.
We are not building civilization—brick by brick—according to some master plan aiming toward a “better” end: no paradise/salvation awaits on the current path.
Technology and innovation are slowing, not accelerating.
Technology (ahem; renewable energy) will not solve our big problems.
Space colonization is an infantile fantasy that is not part of our future.
Growth is destined to end: we have hitched ourselves to a losing wagon.
Monetary valuations badly miss the mark by orders-of-magnitude, so that decisions based on money (i.e., most societal decisions) will be bad ones.
Malthus was wrong only in his optimism that population will saturate and stabilize.
https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2022/10/the-cult-of-civilization/
July 10th, 2023
thx for that link apnea.. really insightful blog
March 21st, 2024
It shall become just as you dreamed it.
March 27th, 2026
Thanks a lot as always, daenigma100.
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