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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 [...]
Property-Owning Democracy
By Kevin Vallier On November 20, 2012 · 16 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Liberty, Rights Theory, Social Justice
IN a recent Boston Review article, philosophers Martin O’Neill and Thad Williamson develop and defend Rawls’s ideal economic regime, property-owning democracy. Given that these two authors have recently put out an anthology devoted to working out the details of this ideal, I thought it would be worthwhile to offer a [...]
We’ve talked a great deal about John Tomasi’s book, Free Market Fairness, here on this blog. But on re-reading one of the chapters this afternoon, I noticed a nice point that I don’t think we’ve yet discussed here.
The point is broadly about the value of economic liberty. More [...]
“Why do you need the right to decide how you spend your own money,” asks Jason Brennan. “You can vote!”
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 [...]
The Supreme Court Decision, Freedom of Contract, and Federalism
By Fernando Teson On July 1, 2012 · 23 Comments · In Current Events, Democracy, Libertarianism, Liberty, Rights Theory
Let us assume that the health-care individual mandate violates a moral right, freedom of contract. If so, non-lawyers may find it mildly surprising that Sebelius was not about freedom of contract. The ruling was exclusively about the constitutional powers of the federal government vis-à-vis the states. Sebelius is a federalism case, not a civil-rights case. Had [...]
[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 opens her post by laying out the distinctive normative commitments of market democracy. She then announces: [...]
[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.]
I am grateful to Matt Zwolinski and Bleeding Heart Libertarians for hosting this symposium on Free [...]
Factual Free-Market Fairness
By Deirdre McCloskey On June 16, 2012 · 401 Comments · In Economics, Liberalism, 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.]
To a discussion by political philosophers a mere fact woman like me, an economic historian trained in the [...]
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