Thinking on Sunday: Contractualism, Liberalism and Utilitarianism
18th February 2018 · 11:00am - 12:30pm
In person | Virtual event
Sam Fremantle‘s talk on “Contractualism, Liberalism and Utilitarianism” will be about how John Rawls, in A Theory of Justice, set out to provide a more robust foundation for liberal rights than that provided by the utilitarian liberalism of John Stuart Mill. He will argue that Rawls failed in his attempt.
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Sam Fremantle has a Phd from UCL, on ‘Reconstructing Rawls: A utilitarian critique of Rawls’s theory of Justice’. He has taught philosophy at Birkbeck since 2000 and still teaches there. He was one of the founder members of the London School of Philosophy, set up in 2010. In 2017 he set up the International School of Philosophy, providing courses online.