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Sunday, June 22 • 9:30am - 10:30am
Three Enemies of Capitalism 2

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In this second part of a two part series, Carrie-Ann Biondi will explain and challenge the essential claims of John Rawls’s welfare liberalism, and defend capitalism against the false accusations this enemy lodges against it concerning poverty, needs, and desert. Knowing his intellectual enemies accounts for part of John Galt’s success in stopping “the motor of the world” when he persuades producers to go on strike. He defeats enemies of capitalism not only by making the moral case for capitalism, but also by reclaiming terminology and undermining false premises of his enemies’ views.

(The two parts of "Enemies of Capitalism" will be informative whether one attends one or both.) ...

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Carrie-Ann Biondi

Associate Professor of Philosophy, Marymount Manhattan College
Carrie-Ann Biondi is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Marymount Manhattan College, NY, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Reason Papers. She holds a BA and an MA in American Studies and an MA and a PhD in Philosophy, and works primarily in moral and political philosophy and ancient Greek... Read More →


Sunday June 22, 2014 9:30am - 10:30am EDT
Loft North Manchester Country Club

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