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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 [...]
We tell our children that it’s wrong to lie. And, at least when they are young, we do not qualify the statement. We do not tell them that it’s wrong to lie unless you really, really need the thing you’re lying to get, or unless it’s just a tiny little white lie anyway. We tell [...]
[Editor's Note: The following is a guest contribution from Scott Anderson, professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia. Scott's not a libertarian, but he'a friend and a good philosopher who specializes in coercion. He offered to share his reflections on the subject in light of the recent BHL-Crooked Timber Debate.]
Do [...]
Libertarianism, Freedom, and Coercion
By Matt Zwolinski On July 9, 2012 · 13 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Current Events, Libertarianism, Liberty
Bertram, Robin and Gourevitch (BRG) don’t think that libertarianism takes seriously enough the ways in which workers’ freedom is restricted in a capitalist economy. Jason Brennan thinks that BRG misunderstand the sort of libertarianism to which we Bleeding Heart Libertarians are attracted. I see a bit more merit in BRG’s [...]
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 [...]
Reply to Elizabeth Anderson: Part II, Workplace Democracy
By John Tomasi On June 20, 2012 · 16 Comments · In Democracy, Exploitation, Liberty, 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 [...]
[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.]
Let’s start with my points of agreement with Tomasi’s refreshing
Corey Robin and Chris Bertram have both recently claimed that libertarianism is insufficiently responsive to concerns about private power – especially the power employers wield over their employees. If libertarians care about individual liberty and freedom from coercion, then why focus exclusively on the ways in which big government [...]
Libertarians sometimes take their analogies too far. From the plausible insight that taxation is like forced labor certain respects, they jump to the entirely implausible conclusion that taxation is forced labor. To libertarians, this move appears to be a penetrating insight into the “essence” of taxation. To non-libertarians, it appears to be a kind of [...]
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