Comments on: Liberal Virtue and the Common Good http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2005/07/02/liberal-virtue-and-the-common-good/ The Sweet Release of Reason Tue, 22 May 2012 20:28:45 +0000 hourly 1 By: Rob http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2005/07/02/liberal-virtue-and-the-common-good/#comment-6057 Rob Sun, 03 Jul 2005 08:54:00 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/?p=751#comment-6057 This virtue as constrained self-interest maximisation might be the ur-American view, but it's not really Lockean. The structure of the Second Treatise suggests that Locke regards the pursuit of the kind of self-interest that would need constraint following from the invention of money as a kind of secular Fall, whilst the quite explicit separation of liberty and licence should also be read as tying human fulfillment to a set of moral obligations, which might not be in our narrow self-interest at all. This is without mentioning the actual theory of property rights at all. The restraint is required to maximise self-interest insight is Hobbes's, and I would be surprised if anyone wanted to be tarred with that brush. This virtue as constrained self-interest maximisation might be the ur-American view, but it’s not really Lockean. The structure of the Second Treatise suggests that Locke regards the pursuit of the kind of self-interest that would need constraint following from the invention of money as a kind of secular Fall, whilst the quite explicit separation of liberty and licence should also be read as tying human fulfillment to a set of moral obligations, which might not be in our narrow self-interest at all. This is without mentioning the actual theory of property rights at all. The restraint is required to maximise self-interest insight is Hobbes’s, and I would be surprised if anyone wanted to be tarred with that brush.

]]> By: Rob http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2005/07/02/liberal-virtue-and-the-common-good/#comment-6055 Rob Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/?p=751#comment-6055 This virtue as constrained self-interest maximisation might be the ur-American view, but it's not really Lockean. The structure of the Second Treatise suggests that Locke regards the pursuit of the kind of self-interest that would need constraint following from the invention of money as a kind of secular Fall, whilst the quite explicit separation of liberty and licence should also be read as tying human fulfillment to a set of moral obligations, which might not be in our narrow self-interest at all. This is without mentioning the actual theory of property rights at all. The restraint is required to maximise self-interest insight is Hobbes's, and I would be surprised if anyone wanted to be tarred with that brush. This virtue as constrained self-interest maximisation might be the ur-American view, but it’s not really Lockean. The structure of the Second Treatise suggests that Locke regards the pursuit of the kind of self-interest that would need constraint following from the invention of money as a kind of secular Fall, whilst the quite explicit separation of liberty and licence should also be read as tying human fulfillment to a set of moral obligations, which might not be in our narrow self-interest at all. This is without mentioning the actual theory of property rights at all. The restraint is required to maximise self-interest insight is Hobbes’s, and I would be surprised if anyone wanted to be tarred with that brush.

]]> By: Anger Management http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2005/07/02/liberal-virtue-and-the-common-good/#comment-6056 Anger Management Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/?p=751#comment-6056 <strong>THE PURSUIT OF SELF-DESTRUCTION</strong> Here's an argument that deserves comment. In a column for the Wall Street Journal, historian Darrin M. McMahon argues that when Jefferson declared man's right to the pursuit of happiness, what he meant was man's right to sacrifice himself for the good ... THE PURSUIT OF SELF-DESTRUCTION

Here’s an argument that deserves comment. In a column for the Wall Street Journal, historian Darrin M. McMahon argues that when Jefferson declared man’s right to the pursuit of happiness, what he meant was man’s right to sacrifice himself for the good …

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