Monthly Archives: April 2012

Things I Looked Up While Doing My Homework

The definition of salient. (Just making sure.)

The tyranny of the minority.

The concept of contractarianism as a counter to libertarianism. The article I was reading summarized contractarianism as “fair distribution of resources” (vs the libertarian concept of “basic freedoms”). That’s a bit different from the gist I get from brief reading on social contract theory and libertarianism, which describe them more as mutual consent and responsibility vs voluntary association.