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Libertarians and Human Rights
By Fernando Teson On May 14, 2013 · 9 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Current Events, Economics, Libertarianism, Liberty, Rights Theory
In a recent post, Bas van der Vossen urges libertarians to think more about human rights. I agree, so I write this commentary in the spirit of a friendly amendment.
I think it is important at the outset to distinguish two spheres of endeavor. The first is the academic study of human rights; [...]
In “Starving for Virtue? Eudaimonism and Public Reason versus Rothbardianism,” Kevin V. continues to defend the compatibility of public-reason liberalism with eudaimonism. I continue to dissent.
Death Before Dishonour
Let’s start with my biggest gripe. Kevin quotes (or almost quotes – he changes my “eudaimonist” to “eudaemonist”) (no, that’s not my biggest gripe) [...]
Libertarian Human Rights?
By Bas van der Vossen On May 9, 2013 · 85 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Libertarianism, Rights Theory, Social Justice
Some of my academic work deals with international issues. As a result, I read a lot about the philosophy of human rights. It’s hard to read this literature without noticing the nearly complete absence of libertarian input. This post is my call for a libertarian take on human rights.
Libertarians are typically not very friendly [...]
Two days ago, Roderick argued that eudaimonism provides an attractive moral foundation for the non-aggression principle despite the claims of public reason liberals. Here I try to show that his criticisms fail. I admit that we are now deep into the non-aggression wars and many of the details may weary our readers. But [...]
Eudaimonist Reason versus Public Reason
By Roderick Long On May 4, 2013 · 78 Comments · In Left-libertarianism, Libertarianism, Rights Theory
Kevin V. thinks eudaimonism makes a better fit with public-reason liberalism than with NAP. By contrast, I don’t think eudaimonism and public-reason liberalism are compatible. Eudaimonism is a “comprehensive doctrine,” a “conception of the good,” and one that regards the content of justice as being essentially informed by (though also informing) the other [...]
Roderick and I have been around the block on the relationship between eudaimonism and self-ownership/non-aggression principles (SOP/NAP). Roderick thinks eudaimonism, properly understood, vindicates SOP/NAP as principles of justice, whereas I think eudaimonism underdetermines whether SOP/NAPs are the right principles of justice.[1] In large part due to Roderick’s [...]
Zwolinski and Smith have already discovered that much of their disagreement is verbal, rather than substantive. But there are some real differences here.
In an earlier post, Matt wrote:
The NAP clearly implies that it’s wrong for me to shoot you in the head. But, to borrow an example from David Friedman, [...]
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 [...]
UPDATED and moved to the top (4/23), again on (4/27)
Last Monday, I published an essay on Libertarianism.org laying out a brief case against the Non-Aggression Principle (NAP). It kicked off a bit of debate, so here is a (selective) summary of what’s gone on in the last week.
As readers of this blog are no doubt aware, our maestro, Matt Zwolinski, has raised some hackles for his claim that the much beloved libertarian non-aggression principle is both a poor foundation for libertarianism, and, more importantly, false. I agree with pretty much everything Matt says, but I want to add some detail [...]
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