Roderick and I have been around the block on the relationship between eudaimonism and self-ownership/non-aggression principles (SOP/NAP). Roderick thinks eudaimonism, properly understood, vindicates SOP/NAP as principles of justice, whereas I…
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…
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…
Most of you are probably familiar with Shelley for his Romantic poetry. But did you know that he dabbled in political philosophy too? Perhaps even … libertarian political philosophy? Check out the following…
I’ve recently finished reading the great political theorist Michael Walzer’s book In God’s Shadow: Politics in the Hebrew Bible. Walzer’s thesis is that the Biblical writers were “not very interested…