Can justice be undermined by a rolling pin accidentally rolling into your neighbor’s house? Is possession nine tenths of the *moral* law too? Also oddly some stuff about Moby Dick.

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Here’s the recording for the third session of the second round of our Substack philosophy class for paid subscribers there and “GTAA University” subscribers here, this one on G.A. Cohen’s book Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality. This week we got a good start on Ch. 2 (“Justice, Freedom, and Market Transactions”), although we’ll be doing a second week on it next Tuesday since we haven’t even gotten to the freedom tickets or the critique of Nagel! Demember that this and all the previous class recordings so far (so, all the Nozick ones too) can be found here.

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