tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post8692140403943977388..comments2024-03-27T07:18:39.229-05:00Comments on In Medias Res: What Some Kansans are Saying about Health CareUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-62619925598974905342013-11-09T23:08:38.306-06:002013-11-09T23:08:38.306-06:00I think you might like Smith more than Smithians. ...I think you might like Smith more than Smithians. I do encourage a return to the recent literature on him. But let me rephrase slightly: some of what you present as unthinking strikes me as a latter-day variation of Scottish Enlightenment thought, and that you might approach your interlocutors more sympathetically with that framework in mind.<br /><br />When next you walk the wild prairie, try out the Smithian word "benevolence" on Parties With Tea and the other braves.Withywindlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11465319711207992232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-17542961461594459672013-11-09T18:53:04.066-06:002013-11-09T18:53:04.066-06:00Withywindle,
Adam Smith, commutative justice, cri...Withywindle,<br /><br /><i>Adam Smith, commutative justice, critique of distributive justice. Perhaps a bit more of a genuflection in that direction?</i><br /><br />Frankly, I think we genuflect in the direction of Adam Smith far too much already.<br /><br /><i>Was "mercy" their word, or yours?</i><br /><br />Theirs. The organizers' framing of the whole matter of health care was an obvious nod towards Micah 6:8; something along the lines of, "In the matter of providing health care to our fellow man, how may we as American citizens both act justly and show mercy to those in need?" For what it's worth, I actually came to the event ready to argue that the justice-mercy dyad is a poor one to make use of when talking about--as Americans have been intensely over the past five years--making health care more affordable (and thus available) and/or extending health insurance coverage. To my mind, that topic just doesn't map onto those kind of philosophical or theological ruminations; it is, I think, instead a question of citizenship, and what common goods we should (or shouldn't) feel obligated to address publicly. But then, as I mentioned in 1) above, those who spoke before me got onto the idea of equating the free market as "justice" and government regulation as an infringement upon the divine gift of "mercy," and the question of public goods was lost for the night. Still a good conversation, though.Russell Arben Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03366800726360134194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-33513308935288421862013-11-09T18:16:40.805-06:002013-11-09T18:16:40.805-06:00Was "mercy" their word, or yours? It see...Was "mercy" their word, or yours? It seems inappropriate, but I won't belabor the point, unless (ahem) you chose it.Withywindlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11465319711207992232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-74474410312217455122013-11-08T20:48:15.733-06:002013-11-08T20:48:15.733-06:00Adam Smith, commutative justice, critique of distr...Adam Smith, commutative justice, critique of distributive justice. Perhaps a bit more of a genuflection in that direction?Withywindlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11465319711207992232noreply@blogger.com