June 26, 2014
Loren Lomasky: Taxation is Not Theft
I recently had occasion to re-read Loren Lomasky’s wonderful article, “Libertarianism as if (the other 99 Percent of) People Mattered.” I wish I could find an un-gated version of it online,…
Month: June 2014
June 26, 2014
On Killing Government Leaders, with a Quotation from Jeff McMahan on the Ethics of Killing in War
Jeff McMahan truly excellent book Killing in War challenges the doctrine of the moral equality of combatants in war. According to this widely held view, soldiers in a war have equal permission…
June 25, 2014
Property-Owning Democracy: From BHL to a Philosophy Journal
Some of you may recall that I wrote a series of blog posts criticizing Rawls’s idea of a property-owning democracy and the arguments offered for it. I received enough good feedback…
June 25, 2014
Bleg: On The Ethics of Killing Government Agents Acting Ex Officio
I’m writing a paper for a conference in December on aggression. My paper is provisionally titled, “When May We Kill Government Agents?: Against the Special Immunity Thesis”. This will eventually…
June 25, 2014
Compulsory Voting: Not Enough to Show There’s a Duty to Vote
Chapter Three–“Do Your Share or Else”–of Compulsory Voting: For and Against considers and rebuts a range of deontological arguments for compulsory voting. Many of these arguments attempt first to establish that there…
June 24, 2014
Mark LeBar on Justice as a Virtue
Here is an intellectual feast: a Podcast interview with Mark LeBar, at Free Thoughts, on the virtue of justice. In one hour you get an in-depth historical discussion of how…