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Who’s Afraid of Natural Rights? (Part II)
By Bas van der Vossen On April 24, 2013 · 14 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Libertarianism, Rights Theory
In my first post, I discussed the argument that there are no natural rights because such rights are too indeterminate. In this post I wish to take up another kind of objection. Taken together, these arguments show us what natural rights really are.
It is common to say that natural rights are those [...]
Who’s Afraid of Natural Rights? (Part I)
By Bas van der Vossen On April 13, 2013 · 46 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Libertarianism, Rights Theory
For my first few posts, I want to write some things about rights. I plan to write on human rights and on property rights in the future. But first I want to address natural rights.
Among philosophers the idea of natural rights is not very popular. And that is putting it mildly. But the grounds [...]
While catching up on the recent Cato Unbound conversations, I just read through Howard Ball’s lead essay and Philip Nitschke’s response about physician assisted death. Ball argues that a terminally ill patient’s interest in autonomy or the alleviation of suffering can justify granting her legal access to deadly drugs. In these [...]
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 [...]
Over at Philosophy etc, Bradley Gabbard argues that a widespread intuition about the trolley problem can justify compulsory aid to the global poor. Here is the trolley problem:
A runaway trolley is on course to kill five innocent people. I can switch the trolley to another track, saving the five but [...]
I am delighted that Chris Bertram, Corey Robin and Alex Gourevitch (BRG) decided to engage BHL on workplace coercion. For my part, I will be disappointed if this discussion merely replays century-old arguments between socialists and liberals about the freedom of workers under capitalism. My aim is to demonstrate that BRG’s central [...]
Freedom and Work
By Jessica Flanigan On July 4, 2012 · 30 Comments · In Libertarianism, Liberty, Rights Theory, Uncategorized
Crooked Timber just posted an article that discusses the posts I’ve written about the workplace. I enjoyed reading it (also- these follow ups) and I’ve been thinking about where we disagree. One charge is that I either am a garden-variety liberal or I am not [...]
Libertarianism and Good Manners
By Matt Zwolinski On June 29, 2012 · 29 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Book/Article Reviews, Libertarianism
Etiquette gets a bit of a bad rap from philosophers. Part of the blame, I suspect, has to go to Philippa Foot, whose otherwise excellent article, “Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives,” famously employed etiquette as an example of a set of norms with which we have only trivial [...]
Freedom and the Moral Powers
By Jessica Flanigan On June 14, 2012 · 24 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Symposium on Free Market Fairness
[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.]
Samuel Freeman is skeptical that economic liberties can be basic. He writes, “for rights and liberties to be [...]
Is Economic Liberty Harmful?
By Jessica Flanigan On June 12, 2012 · 35 Comments · In Exploitation, Liberalism, Libertarianism, Rights Theory, Social Justice, Symposium on Free Market Fairness
[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.]
Elizabeth Anderson argues that economic liberty is importantly different from other basic liberties because its exercise is often [...]
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