Foundations of Liberal Equality - Ronald Dworkin (1988)

Ronald Dworkin gives the first of two lectures on the foundations of liberalism. This is part of the Tanner Lectures.
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03:33 Lecture
1:07:57 Q&A
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[@christophergraves6725]

Incredibly impressive talk. Professor Dworkin lived up to this reputation in this presentation.

[@Gabriel-pt3ci]

Fabulous! So much important and diverse ideas compressed in so little time... I am hearing the follow-up lecture right away.

[@robertmackenzie892]

Professor Dworkin was a genius.

[@peterpedersen3988]

There are just so many things that I want to say and that spring up into my mind, because I’m also pre-occupied with similiar topics as Prof. Dworkin was at the time. So I definitely noticed that there was a certain incoherence in the way he was presenting the argument, and I was thinking: I do know where you want to go with your argument, but why is it that you have so many difficulties in making it explicit? 1:05:08 and a few minutes in - it finally dawned upon me. What a magnificent moment! The story at the beginning and this element alone make this lecture a wonderful anecdote, which is worth remembering. Even if you don‘t take the argument and the topic that he has into account, those two are just two pieces, I certainly hope, will stick with my memory. I couldn’t help, but burst out laughing. - What a fabulous event!

[@domsjuk]

42:30 Qualities of the basic liberal model of distributing resources 43:40 Questions/challenges to this model 50:20 Volitional wellbeing vs. critical wellbeing

[@domsjuk]

What Dworkin here puts as volitional wellbeing vs. critical wellbeing is a conundrum I have been thinking about at least since reading Rawls. This question of "progress" appeared to me as the fundamental limit in a Theory of justice, and it seems to throw liberal ethics back onto the plain of politics in a dialectical way.

[@blairhakamies4132]

Excellent. Congratulations. 🌹

[@endoalley680]

Congradulations. Of all the unconvincing and even unsound arguments I have heard, this is certainly amoung the more eloquent.

[@butcherax]

2:09

[@viswasubramanian4738]

Where can I get the transcripts?