Paul Sagar

An innovative argument that vindicates our normative commitment to basic equality, synthesising philosophy, history, and psychology. What makes human beings one another's equals? That we are basic equals has become a bedrock assumption in Western moral and political philosophy. And yet establishing why we ought to believe this claim has proved fiendishly difficult, floundering in the face of the many...

A radical reinterpretation of Adam Smith that challenges economists, moral philosophers, political theorists, and intellectual historians to rethink him - and why he matters. Adam Smith has long been recognised as the father of modern economics. More recently, scholars have emphasised his standing as a moral philosopher—one who was prepared to critique markets as well as to praise them. However,...