42:30 Qualities of the basic liberal model of distributing resources 43:40 Questions/challenges to this model 50:20 Volitional wellbeing vs. critical wellbeing
There are just so many things that I want to say and that spring up into my mind, because I’m also pre-occupied with similiar topics as Prof. Dworkin was at the time. So I definitely noticed that there was a certain incoherence in the way he was presenting the argument, and I was thinking: I do know where you want to go with your argument, but why is it that you have so many difficulties in making it explicit? 1:05:08 and a few minutes in - it finally dawned upon me. What a magnificent moment! The story at the beginning and this element alone make this lecture a wonderful anecdote, which is worth remembering. Even if you don‘t take the argument and the topic that he has into account, those two are just two pieces, I certainly hope, will stick with my memory. I couldn’t help, but burst out laughing. - What a fabulous event!
What Dworkin here puts as volitional wellbeing vs. critical wellbeing is a conundrum I have been thinking about at least since reading Rawls. This question of "progress" appeared to me as the fundamental limit in a Theory of justice, and it seems to throw liberal ethics back onto the plain of politics in a dialectical way.
