April 29, 2016
The NAP is Back!
A little over three years ago, I published an essay entitled, “Six Reasons Libertarians Should Reject the Non-Aggression Principle.” That essay kicked off a spirited debate, with notable responses from…
Posts filed under non-aggression principle
May 30, 2014
A New Essay on Libertarianism and Pollution
A little over a year ago, I published a short essay on libertarianism and pollution at Libertarianism.org. Today I have a new one. It’s much longer – about 8,500 words as opposed…
April 15, 2014
Ayn Rand’s Theory of Rights – A Critique
It usually begins with Ayn Rand, wrote Jerome Tuccille back in 1972, and so it did with me. My first exposure to libertarianism was Rand’s novel, The Fountainhead, and it didn’t take long…
December 09, 2013
The Dialectical Impotence of the Non-Aggression Principle, Redux
Walter Block* defines the non-aggression axiom (sometimes called the non-aggression principle, or NAP for short) as follows: It states, simply, that it shall be legal for anyone to do anything he…
July 01, 2013
Molyneuxveau Arguments for the NAP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwrsKGzcZLM Stefan Molyneux has released a long video responding to the critique of the Non-Aggression Principle (NAP) I published at Libertarianism.org earlier this year. The first few minutes, in which…
May 12, 2013
Hungering and Thirsting After Righteousness: Eudaimonism and Modified Rothbardianism versus Public Reason
In “Starving for Virtue? Eudaimonism and Public Reason versus Rothbardianism,” Kevin V. continues to defend the compatibility of public-reason liberalism with eudaimonism. I continue to dissent. Death Before Dishonour Let’s…