Sceptics are resistant and if they want to bite the bullet and avoid a normative agenda then the claim that might is right is hard to derail. However, they — the sceptics — often cannot resist a claim about the promotion of the interests of a specific class and implicitly assert a normative agenda.<\/p>\n
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Next week, I want to start with a tutorial on paternalism. Read Berlin (available in blackboard<\/a>) and then think about these berlin tutorial questions<\/a>.\u00a0 Above all, think about a government with the power to choose what you wear and which job you do. Why shouldn’t it have this power? Answers, puzzles and comments can be posted into the comments\/replies below. \u00a0You only need to log in with your normal university username.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sceptics are resistant and if they want to bite the bullet and avoid a normative agenda then the claim that might is right is hard to derail. However, they — the sceptics — often cannot resist a claim about the promotion of the interests of a specific class and implicitly assert a normative agenda. … Continue reading “PHi3001 Sceptics and might is right”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4745,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stage-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4745"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/davidrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}