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The State Is Wrong
Why there is no good argument in the philosophical tradition for state authority A Lecture by Crispin Sartwell Thursday June 26th 7:00 PM @ Crispin Sartwell will be talking about the immorality of government power and a vision of a freer future. Against the State examines all the famous arguments for the state in the Western tradition, including those of Plato, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Hegel, Habermas, and Rawls, and concludes that they are not only unconvincingly but embarrassing: shockingly fallacious. At Wooden Shoe, Crispin will discuss these arguments, and then talk about a characteristically American anti-authoritarianism based on American abolitionism, feminism, and the works of Emerson and Thoreau. Crispin Sartwell teaches philosophy at Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA. A frequent contributor to the opinion pages of the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Los Angeles Times, he is the author of a number of books on topics including beauty (Six Names of Beauty) and African-American autobiography (Act Like You Know). See him speak: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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