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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 [...]
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 [...]
Patents, Property, and Genes
By Jessica Flanigan On April 16, 2013 · 20 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Current Events, Rights Theory
Yesterday the Supreme Court heard oral arguments about whether human genes may be patented. The case centers on a dispute between a group of researchers and patient advocates and Myriad genetics. Myriad is a company that holds patents on genes (BRCA1 and BRCA2) that correlate for a significantly increased risk of breast and [...]
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 [...]
A few weeks back, I posted an essay at Libertarianism.org arguing that property rights necessarily restrict freedom. I noted in that post that I thought that property rights enhance freedom in certain ways too, and promised to go into that more in a future post.
Thanks to a skirmish with David Friedman [...]
Blogging at Libertarianism.Org, Part 4: Liberty and Property
By Matt Zwolinski On February 5, 2013 · 7 Comments · In Libertarianism, Liberty, Links, Rights Theory
Speaking of property, my latest at Libertarianism.org is up, looking at the relationship between freedom and property. The controversial part of my thesis, at least for libertarians I guess, is that property rights necessarily restrict freedom. I think they enhance it in various ways too, but it’s important for 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 [...]
In my last post, I argued that Rothbard’s discussion of self-ownership in chapter six of The Ethics of Liberty rests on a fundamental confusion between descriptive and normative claims. Individuals in the state of nature might control their own [...]
In the previous post in this series, I discussed the natural law foundation of Rothbard’s Ethics of Liberty, and suggested that it runs into difficulties with David Hume’s famous “is-ought” problem. In this post, I move on [...]
Land From The Ground Up
By David Schmidtz On April 27, 2012 · 11 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Libertarianism, Symposium on Libertarianism and Land
Our days are a vast, intricate, evolving dance of mutual understandings.1 We stop at a traffic light, offer a plastic card as payment for a meal, leave our weapons at home, or enter a voting booth. We live and work in close proximity, at high speed, with few collisions: on our roads and [...]
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