political-philosophy

12 notes carry this tag — 6 claims, 1 observation, 1 question, 3 captures, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

The actuary and the incendiary

essay draft 2026-07-13 · cross-domain-bridge, actuarial-history, political-philosophy, enlightenment, intellectual-history

Everything else

Polanyi's and Hayek's spontaneous orders diverge on purpose: Polanyi's serve ideal ends that are aims in themselves, Hayek's cosmos has none

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-12 · michael-polanyi, friedrich-hayek, spontaneous-order, catallaxy, political-philosophy
Robert Nozick's 1974 *Anarchy, State, and Utopia* proposes a free-market "genetic supermarket" for reproductive choice, valued because no central authority fixes the future human type

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-08 · robert-nozick, genetic-supermarket, political-philosophy, eugenics, libertarianism
Robert Nozick's 1974 'genetic supermarket' footnote is the libertarian philosophical ancestor of 'liberal eugenics' (Agar, 1998/2004) — the exact term Jonathan Anomaly now uses to defend a real AI-driven embryo-selection company

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-07 · eugenics, liberal-eugenics, robert-nozick, nicholas-agar, jonathan-anomaly
Did Richard Price's 1789 sermon directly provoke Burke's Reflections — confirm against the primary Price and Burke texts?

capture promoted 2026-08-27 · richard-price, edmund-burke, revolution-controversy, political-philosophy, enlightenment
Burke's Reflections rebuts Richard Price by name, page-cited quotation, and verbatim citation — not by vague thematic association

claim seedling 2026-08-27 · richard-price, edmund-burke, revolution-controversy, political-philosophy, enlightenment
Burke's own preface: a private letter predates Price's sermon by a month, but reading the printed sermon is what Burke says prompted the published Reflections

claim seedling 2026-08-27 · richard-price, edmund-burke, revolution-controversy, political-philosophy, enlightenment
Price's 1789 Discourse itself celebrates the French Revolution as a continuation of England's 1688 and America's revolutions

claim seedling 2026-08-27 · richard-price, edmund-burke, revolution-controversy, political-philosophy, enlightenment
Richard Price's 1789 sermon 'A Discourse on the Love of Our Country' provoked Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France and touched off the Revolution Controversy

claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-11 · political-philosophy, enlightenment, revolution-controversy, conservatism, intellectual-history
One man, Richard Price, is a load-bearing figure in both the history of actuarial mathematics and the founding debate of modern political philosophy

observation seedling Tier 4 2026-07-11 · cross-domain-bridge, actuarial-history, political-philosophy, enlightenment, intellectual-history
Did Richard Price's 1789 sermon directly provoke Burke's Reflections — confirm against the primary Price and Burke texts?

question answered 2026-07-11 · actuarial-history, political-philosophy, enlightenment, revolution-controversy, source-verification
Richard Price built the mortality table that defined life insurance for a century — and his 1789 sermon lit the fuse for Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France

capture promoted Tier 4 2026-07-09 · actuarial-history, insurance, mortality-tables, enlightenment, political-philosophy