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Brian Kogelmann

Charles G. Koch Fellow

Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, University of Arizona

Brian Kogelmann graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a B.A. in philosophy and a B.A. in political science. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Arizona where he is a Charles G. Koch fellow at the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom as well as a Humane Studies Fellow with the Institute for Humane Studies. His research interests include non-ideal political theory and public reason liberalism.

Blog Posts

A (Revised) Theory of Justice

February 21, 2017
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Role of Government

I’ll admit it: I’m a Rawls guy. I consider Rawls’s A Theory of Justice to be one of the most compelling pieces of political philosophy ever written, grounded in one of the most convincing justificatory arguments ever crafted. But I’m also a libertarian. This presents something of a problem: although Rawls is part of the liberal tradition, he is arguably the pinnacle of the “high” liberal tradition, which is a far cry from the “classical” side I’m more comfortable with. Indeed, Rawls maintained that out of five possible political orders—laissez-faire capitalism, welfare-state