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SUMMARY:Seeley Lectures 2019\, Elizabeth Anderson (Michigan): Locke and Cl
 assical Liberals through the Lens of the Work Ethic: A (Mostly) Progressiv
 e Tale - Prof. Elizabeth Anderson (Philosophy and Women's Studies)
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CONTACT:Waseem Yaqoob
DESCRIPTION:Neoliberals deploy their ideology to justify public policies t
 hat put the interests of capital owners ahead of the interests of workers.
   The roots of this ideology can be traced to the Protestant work ethic\, 
 as advanced by 17th c. Puritan minister Richard Baxter.  A close reading o
 f Baxter's theology reveals two contradictory sides of the work ethic: a p
 rogressive side exalting ordinary workers\, and a conservative side ration
 alizing harsh treatment of poor workers.  I re-interpret classic figures i
 n the history of political thought through the lens of the work ethic\, de
 monstrating how Locke and successors developed the progressive side of the
  work ethic\, and Bentham and Malthus the conservative side.  The subseque
 nt history of social and economic policy in Europe and North America refle
 cts the conflict between these two sides of the work ethic.  Contemporary 
 neoliberalism represents a victory for the conservative side.  Yet from th
 e start\, the conservative work ethic contained contradictions\, now on di
 splay in neoliberal theory and practice.\n\nProfessor Anderson is Arthur F
 . Thurnau Professor and John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of P
 hilosophy and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. Her work in m
 oral and political philosophy focuses on democratic theory\, with a partic
 ular focus on equality\, race and the ethical limits of markets. She is cu
 rrently working on a history of egalitarianism\, examining the epistemolog
 y of moral learning through the prism of the history of abolitionism.\n\n-
 --\nThe Seeley Lectures\, our premier lecture series\, are given every two
  years. They are open to all and free of charge.
LOCATION:Runcie Room\, Faculty of Divinity\, Sidgwick Site\, Cambridge
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