Dmitry Chernikov’s Blog

One of the most potent though neglected arguments for individual liberty is one I’d like to call the Artisan argument. It starts by observing that freedom cannot in principle be fully erased from the heart of man. The desire to act so as to improve one’s lot in life is engraved in human nature. The [...]

The more I read Rescuing Justice and Equality, the clearer it becomes that the author has a diseased mind. I honestly can’t say when I last read anything equally preposterous. The proof is in my reviews below. OK, here is another example. Our author asks: “But why should the fact that it improves the lot [...]

In Rescuing Justice and Equality our author reasons as follows: let D1 be the Rawlsian state of initial equality. Then, according to the difference principle, there may exist a D2, in which people are unequal and which is superior to D1, because in it everyone is better off than in D1. But consider now D3 [...]