# The Philosophy of Gerald Gaus 

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/free-thoughts/the-philosophy-of-gerald-gaus>

**By** Kevin Vallier, Chad Van Schoelandt, Trevor Burrus, Aaron Ross Powell

**Published:** September 25, 2020

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Kevin Vallier and Chad Van Schoelandt join the show to discuss the life and work of Gerald Gaus.

## Summary:

We invited Kevin Vallier and Chad Van Schoelandt to the show to talk about their teacher and mentor, Gerald Gaus. Gerry was not like a lot of public reason types who are just trying to identify the conditions for something as abstract and distant as a well‐ordered society. Gaus started very much from where we are in a way that is much more like Hayek than Rawls.

How do you justify rules? How do you understand morality in order to make rules?

## Further Reading:

[The Range of Justice (or, How to Retrieve Liberal Sectual Tolerance)](https://www.cato-unbound.org/2011/10/10/gerald-gaus/range-justice-or-how-retrieve-liberal-sectual-tolerance), written by Gerald Gaus

[Libertarianism as if (The Other 99 Percent of) People Mattered](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-philosophy-and-policy/article/libertarianism-as-if-the-other-99-percent-of-people-mattered/45DB3994BC624E268B39B75C72046DD6), written by Loren Lomasky