April 27, 2013
NAP Roundup
UPDATED and moved to the top (4/23), again on (4/27) Last Monday, I published an essay on Libertarianism.org laying out a brief case against the Non-Aggression Principle (NAP). It kicked…
Month: April 2013
April 26, 2013
John Rawls, Margaret Thatcher, and Property Owning Democracy
[Editor’s Note: The following is a guest contribution by Felix Bungay, a student at the University of Cambridge reading an MPhil in Intellectual History and Political Thought.] While many Bleeding…
April 26, 2013
Sandel on Queuing
It seems that every year, someone publishes a book on the moral limits of markets. Peter Jaworski and I will most likely be writing a book responding to these other…
April 25, 2013
Against the Non-Aggression Principle as a Foundational Principle of Justice
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…
April 24, 2013
Zwolinski v. Smith
Cartoon libertarians–and there are many of them–usually think the non-aggression principle does a lot of philosophical work. Zwolinski has been arguing the principle is really quite problematic. A flustered George…
April 24, 2013
Who’s Afraid of Natural Rights? (Part II)
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…