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Nate Adams

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Nate Adams @npadams.prof · 09/06/2026

An interesting digression but i want to know what is crucial about Sidgwick’s role at the founding

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Nate Adams @npadams.prof · 05/03/2026

Thinking more frequently these days about this bit from Rawls TJ about how the sense of justice most often works in the background and is revealed in what people won't tolerate

"A community's sense of justice is more likely to be revealed in the fact that the majority cannot bring itself to take the steps necessary to suppress the minority and to punish acts of civil disobedience as the law allows. Ruthless tactics that might be contemplated in other societies are not entertained as real alternatives. Thus the sense of justice affects, in ways we are often unaware of, our interpretation of political life, our perception of the possible courses of action, our will to resist the justified protests of others, and so on.

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Nate Adams @npadams.prof · 16/06/2025

not per se as against conservatism, though many defend liberal positions and assume liberalism in the broad sense. but lots of papers defending conservative positions also get published, eg on immigration and political economy, so the complaint seems.......