Zwolinski and Smith have already discovered that much of their disagreement is verbal, rather than substantive. But there are some real differences here. In an earlier post, Matt wrote: The…
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…
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…
[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…
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…
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…