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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Percy Shelley – Left-Libertarian?
By Matt Zwolinski On April 23, 2013 · 7 Comments · In A Bleeding Heart History of Libertarian Thought, Left-libertarianism, Libertarianism
Most of you are probably familiar with Shelley for his Romantic poetry. But did you know that he dabbled in political philosophy too? Perhaps even … libertarian political philosophy? Check out the following excerpt from his 1820 essay, A Philosophical View of Reform, especially the third paragraph, and look for the [...]
I’ve recently finished reading the great political theorist Michael Walzer’s book In God’s Shadow: Politics in the Hebrew Bible. Walzer’s thesis is that the Biblical writers were “not very interested in politics” in contrast to the ancient Greeks. In fact, “there is a strong anti-political tendency in the biblical texts.” [...]
Libertarians regularly argue about the relationship between their political commitments and their “moral views.” The disagreement seems to proceed by answers to two questions.
1. Do libertarian political commitments imply moral commitments?
2. If yes, which moral commitments?
Those who answer “No” to the first question are sometimes called “thin” libertarians, [...]
When the great social democratic political philosophers of our day decide to address libertarianism outside of a philosophy journal, I am typically left wondering who on earth they think they’re attacking. This was in evidence in Thomas Scanlon’s recent criticism of libertarianism and is true of Philip Pettit’s criticism published [...]
For those just tuning in, the latest libertarian internet dust up surrounds Julie Borowski’s video about why there are not more libertarian women. In it, she argues that women are not libertarians in part because libertarianism is kinda dorky and women care more than men about acceptance. When I first saw the video, [...]
Libertarians have often opposed what philosophers sometimes call welfare rights, or rights to various goods and serves that promote or safeguard human well-being. These include rights to healthcare and education. Libertarians don’t like welfare rights because they appear to give some the moral permission to force others to provide them with goods and services. So [...]
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