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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 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 [...]
(The following is a bit messy–it’s extracted from comments I gave at a colloquium a year ago. But I’d like to share anyways.)
I never make self-ownership-type arguments. Yet, if you ask me whether people are self-owners, I’d say, sure. Some left-liberals claim to find the idea perplexing, but I think that’s because they’re perplexed [...]
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 [...]
On Burdens, Community, and Provisos
By Eric Mack On April 26, 2012 · 3 Comments · In Left-libertarianism, Libertarianism, Symposium on Libertarianism and Land
First, I would like to thank all those commentators who responded to what I wrote in “Natural Rights and Natural Stuff.” Second, I would like to clarify or restate a few of the basic points that I sought to make in that contribution.
To begin with, I did [...]
Self-Ownership and External Property
By Roderick Long On April 25, 2012 · 92 Comments · In Left-libertarianism, Libertarianism, Rights Theory, Symposium on Libertarianism and Land
What kind of external property rights are consistent with self-ownership?
It seems to me that once one acknowledges self-ownership, one cannot acknowledge any other rights unless those rights are themselves grounded in self-ownership.
How so? Well, the difference between rights and other moral claims is that rights are legitimately enforceable. So any limits that [...]
Sobel’s New Argument Against Self-Ownership
By Kevin Vallier On March 6, 2012 · 59 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Libertarianism, Rights Theory
I thought BHL readers might be interested to learn about two cool new companion papers arguing against the Self-Ownership Thesis (SO) written by philosopher David Sobel. Sobel argues that SO is implausible because it cannot differentiate between normatively significant and normatively insignificant impingements on other people’s bodies. In other words, SO draws the [...]
I thought it might be useful to revisit the ongoing discussion about what makes for a Bleeding Heart Libertarian. In this post, I offer a case that I think will separate a Strong BHL from traditional self-ownership libertarians. A Strong BHL holds that a substantial part of the justification of libertarian institutions is [...]
Self-Ownership in Eudaimonist Dress
By Kevin Vallier On February 6, 2012 · 26 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Libertarianism, Rights Theory
I am delighted that my friend and teacher Roderick Long has engaged my first foray into the blogosphere. Roderick has deeply influenced my views. For instance, if not for him, I would not be a eudaimonist.
But wait. Didn’t I say I was a contractualist? Isn’t that inconsistent [...]
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