Whether you're a libertarian liberal or a more egalitarian liberal, the idea is that justice means being non-judgmental with respect to the preferenc….

It's true that to speak of an ethic of giftedness, which is very much the ethic that I deploy in raising questions about designer children and geneti….

They say the state should not impose on its citizens a preferred way of life, but should leave them as free as possible to choose their own values an….

Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social institut….

A market economy is a tool - a valuable and effective tool - for organizing productive activity. A market society is a way of life in which market va….

The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real difficulty begins with figur….

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life..

The way things are does not determine the way they ought to be.

It's ultimately the purpose of education to cultivate the love of learning for its own sake..

Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'..

You can't go wrong with fish and chips..

I think part of being a parent, to love one's child, is to accept them as they come - not to see them as instruments of our ambition or as creatures ….

In most of our lives, we are accustomed to aiming at mastery and control and dominion- - over nature, over our lives, over our jobs, over our careers….

The relief of suffering is a great good. The curing of illness and disease - these are great human goods. This is the mission of medicine..

To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions..

Economics has increasingly become the science of human behavior in general, and it's all the more unlikely to think that it can possibly be value-fre….

There's no necessary connection between maximizing social utility or economic wealth and creating a flourishing democracy. The first does not guarant….

Today if you look at most economic textbooks, economics is not defined by subject matter. It's presented as a science of social choice that applies n….

First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these rights canno….

A better way to mutual respect is to engage directly with the moral convictions citizens bring to public life, rather than to require that people lea….

The most fateful change that unfolded during the past three decades was not an increase in greed. It was the expansion of markets, and of market valu….