Unit 4: Ideals: Freedom, equality and democracy

4.1 Freedom as non-interference

Readings: TBC

Constant
Mill
Berlin

4.2 Freedom as non-domination    

Readings: TBC

  • Philip Pettit
  • A critique of Pettit?

4.3 In favour of capitalist private property

Readings: TBC

  • Hayek
  • Von Mises

4.4 Against capitalist private property

  • GA Cohen, The Structure of Proletarian Unfreedom

4.5 Equality…of what?

Readings, TBC

  • Amartya Sen
  • Elizabeth Anderson, ‘What is the point of equality?’
  • Something on equality of outcome.

4.6 Meritocracy and the critique of talent

Readings, TBC

4.7 Communism, anarchism and radical democracy   

Readings, TBC

4.8 Eco-socialism vs techno-utopianism: responses to the climate crisis.

Readings, TBC

4.9 Is radical change possible?       

Readings, TBC

Maybe something on prison abolition.