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Eudaimonism and Non-Aggression
By Roderick Long On April 30, 2013 · 53 Comments · In Consequentialism, Libertarianism, Rights Theory
There are two ways one can go wrong with regard to the non-aggression principle (NAP).
One way to go wrong is to treat the NAP as a rigid, out-of-context principle that can be applied fairly mechanically with little attention to other values or to the details of the situation.
The other way to go [...]
on my post about Landsburg, one on the University of Rochester’s position and one on why not to try to answer his questions framed in his way.
Soi-disant “libertarian” Steven Landsburg is in the news for a simple-minded and clearly-supposed to-be-show-off-ily-”brave”-and-”provocative” hypothetical about rape that compares it to being “penetrated” by photons, and the psychic cost of knowing one was raped while unconscious to the psychic cost of knowing that other people are looking at pornography. The post [...]
Welfare: Who Cares?
By Jessica Flanigan On September 29, 2012 · 31 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Consequentialism, Libertarianism, Liberty, Rights Theory
Some BHL types seem to think that welfare matters for its own sake. Recently, Kevin suggested that rights are justified by an appeal to the welfare interests they protect. On his telling, classical liberals and welfare liberals agree about the welfarist interests that merit protection, but they just disagree about how we should [...]
[Editor's Note: This essay is part of a symposium on John Tomasi's Free Market Fairness. For an introduction to the symposium, click here. For a list of all posts in the symposium, click here.]
In his excellent book Free Market Fairness John Tomasi introduces a new idea that he labels [...]
At Politics & Prosperity, the author (read his bio here) writes:
The BHL proponents of “social justice” are intelligent and clever persons. They know what they are doing by wrapping their statist agenda in the banner of libertarianism
I’ve seen other posts by hardcore libertarians like that. They assume that [...]
David Friedman on Social Justice and Utilitarianism
By Matt Zwolinski On May 6, 2012 · 35 Comments · In Consequentialism, Libertarianism, Social Justice
One of the themes in my recent conversation at Cato Unbound with David Friedman was whether utilitarianism or social justice is a better concept for thinking about the moral obligations we have to the poor. I recently continued that conversation on this blog with a
Why Not Utilitarianism?
By Matt Zwolinski On May 2, 2012 · 44 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Consequentialism, Libertarianism
A lot of very smart non-philosophers are attracted to some form of utilitarianism. Some of these people, like Ilya Somin and Mike Rappaport are generally sympathetic to the idea of bleeding heart libertarianism, but think that utilitarianism does a better job explaining and defending its attractive qualities than do [...]
Brian Doherty has written a nice, thoughtful essay, “Can Libertarians Learn to Love Social Justice?” where he reviews some of the recent discussion about BHL and traditional-L over at Cato Unbound. He also discusses a much less kind essay by Todd Seavey. While Doherty disagrees with Seavey on a [...]
Bryan Caplan has recently argued that some of Mill’s arguments in On Liberty are “awful” and “cringeworthy” . But the arguments that he offers in support of this claim don’t justify it at all.
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