Posts by: Eric Mack

On Burdens, Community, and Provisos

By On April 26, 2012 · 3 Comments · In Left-libertarianism, Libertarianism, Symposium on Libertarianism and Land

First, I would like to thank all those commentators who responded to what I wrote in “Natural Rights and Natural Stuff.”  Second, I would like to clarify or restate a few of the basic points that I sought to make in that contribution.

To begin with, I did [...]

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Natural Rights and Natural Stuff

By On April 23, 2012 · 59 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Left-libertarianism, Libertarianism, Rights Theory, Symposium on Libertarianism and Land

Since there are many different sorts of approaches to libertarianism – including many different sorts of moral approaches – there are many different sorts of routes to the topic of “Libertarianism and Land.”  Fortunately, the implicit context of this symposium is the natural rights approach to libertarianism – which I would (elsewhere) argue is the [...]

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