Articles on Social Issues  and Political Philosophy

 

 

Classical Liberalism: What it is and isn't (coming in the near future)

A Beginner's guide to the political view called Classical Liberalism

 

Chasing the Justificatory Goalpost: Public Justification and Religious Convictions
Glenn Peoples

According to some people, religious convictions should not be the sole basis of the policies we support, because those policies would then lack the right kind of public justification. This, apparently, is because religious beliefs themselves lack the right kind of justification. Just what type of justification is this, and do religious beliefs necessarily lack it?

 

Smoking and Sodomy: Testing the Limits of Political Correctness
Glenn Peoples

Probing an interesting double standard in broadcasting and political correctness

 

Smoking and Sodomy: Responding to the AIDS Foundation
Glenn Peoples

At the request of homosexual interest website GayNZ, Rachel Lemesurier of the New Zealand AIDS foundation has sought to undermine the article "Smoking and Sodomy." This is my response to her effort (her response is largely reproduced in the article).

 

Liberalism and Natural Law
Glenn Peoples

Based on a Paper Presented to the Department of Philosophy, University of Otago, April 2005. In most historic forms of Classical Liberalism, principles of government, and in fact the rationale for government, are based on natural law. What, exactly, is it? In particular, was it based on any kind of religious assumption, or was it a secular concept that essentially purged religion from politics and depended on reason alone?

 

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