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It's Hard to Make Sense of Marxism Without a Conception of Objective Human Flourishing
This is the transcript of a talk I gave yesterday at a conference at NYU. And SPEAKING OF HOW I’M IN NEW YORK RIGHT NOW, if you live there or thereabouts, consider coming out to see me and Sohrab Ahmari in dialogue about populism tonight in...
Nozick Starting Ch. 7 Section II Recording for Substack Philosophy Class for Paid Subscribers
Finishing up discussing the analogy between Nozick's "redistribution is forced labor" and Marx's "being mutely compelled to work hours of surplus labor is forced labor." Kicking off Nozick vs. Rawls.
Here’s the recording for the sixteenth...
Unlocking "I'm Pretty Sure Feudalism Existed"/Atwork Preview for Next Week/Andy Fundraiser/Live Show Reminder
No essay this week, sorry!
But I’m unlocking I’m Pretty Sure Feudalism Existed after a year and change behind the paywall:
…and as a quick preview, Andy has already made the graphic for next Sunday:
Speaking of Andy:
As many of you...
"Locke's Theory of Acquisition" and "The Proviso" Recording for Substack Philosophy Class for Paid Subscribers
Is redistribution like slavery? Or, if that's ridiculous, how should we feel about Marx's argument that surplus labor extraction under capitalism is analogous to previous systems of coerced labor?
Here’s the recording for the fifteenth ses...
"Trump, Zohran, and the Future of Populism: Two Perspectives" (Upcoming Event in NYC with Sohrab Ahmari)
Two weeks from today (on Sunday, May 17th) I’ll be one half of a discsussion on “Trump, Zohran, and the Future of Populism” with UnHerd editor Sohrab Ahmari at Bar Freda in Queens.
You can get tickets here.
I’ve known Sohrab for ye...
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Ben Burgis is a philosophy instructor, a columnist for Jacobin magazine, and a semi-regular opinion writer for MSNBC and UnHerd. In the rest of those places, he mostly writes about politics, but here on Substack he mostly writes about philosophy.
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