May 07, 2013
What Libertarians Believe About Aggression
My latest post at Libertarianism.org takes a sociological detour from the recent philosophical debate over the Non-Aggression Principle.
Posts filed under non-aggression principle
May 07, 2013
Starving for Virtue? Eudaimonism and Public Reason versus Rothbardianism
Two days ago, Roderick argued that eudaimonism provides an attractive moral foundation for the non-aggression principle despite the claims of public reason liberals. Here I try to show that his…
May 04, 2013
Eudaimonist Reason versus Public Reason
Kevin V. thinks eudaimonism makes a better fit with public-reason liberalism than with NAP. By contrast, I don’t think eudaimonism and public-reason liberalism are compatible. Eudaimonism is a “comprehensive doctrine,”…
May 03, 2013
Eudaimonism Cannot Save the Non-Aggression Principle
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…
April 30, 2013
Eudaimonism and Non-Aggression
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…
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…