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53Some writers have so confounded government with society, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. Society in every state is a ble…Read more
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149I want to talk about some of the main objections that have been given to libertarian anarchism and my attempts to answer them. But before I start giving objections and trying to answer them, there is no point in trying to answer objections to a view unless you have given some positive reason to hold the view in the first place. So, I just want to say briefly what I think the positive case is for it before going on to defend it against objections.
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2Defending a Free NationIn Edward Stringham (ed.), Anarchy and the Law: The Political Economy of Choice, Transaction Publishers. pp. 149-162. 2007.This question presupposes a prior question: would a free nation need to defend itself from foreign aggression? Some would answer no: the rewards of cooperation outweigh the rewards of aggression, and so a nation will probably not be attacked unless it first acts aggressively itself.
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23Land-locked: A critique of Carson on property rightsJournal of Libertarian Studies 20 (1): 87-95. 2006.
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120Abortion, Abandonment, and Positive Rights: The Limits of Compulsory Altruism*: RODERICK T. LONGSocial Philosophy and Policy 10 (1): 166-191. 1993.We began with three propositions: that people have a right not to be treated as mere means to the ends of others, that a woman who voluntarily becomes pregnant nevertheless has the right to an abortion, and that a woman who voluntarily gives birth does not have a right to abandon her child until she finds a substitute caretaker. These propositions initially seemed inconsistent, for the prohibition on treating others as mere means appeared to rule out the possibility of positive rights, thus maki…Read more
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219Aristotle's Conception of FreedomReview of Metaphysics 49 (4): 775-802. 1996.In particular, Miller argues persuasively for attributing to Aristotle the following theses--theses traditionally rejected by communitarians as liberal innovations antithetical to the Aristotelian point of view
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150An earlier, abbreviated version was presented as remarks for the inaugural symposium of the Molinari Society, at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division meeting, on 27 December 2004. Replies and comments on matters of style, content, and argument in this essay are welcome.
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7Author’s note : This article originally appeared in the Summer 1996 issue of the North Carolina Constitution Defense Association News , a gun-rights organisation.
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64Review of Review of Leland Yeager, Ethics as Social Science. (review)Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 6 89-98. 2003.Like feuding relatives at a family barbecue, economists and moral philosophers often like to pretend they have nothing to do with each other. Economists pose as value-neutral scientists who have no need for airy-fairy moral theory; yet they regularly dispense the sorts of prescription and advice that cry out for ethical analysis. Philosophers likewise view themselves as having loftier concerns than vulgar economics; but by conducting their ethical and political theorizing in ignorance of economi…Read more
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8Can the experience of Icelandic Vikings eight centuries ago teach us a lesson about the dangers of privatization? Jared Diamond thinks so. In his article Living on the Moon ," published in the May 23, 2002, issue of the New York Review of Books , Diamond portrays the history of Iceland in the Viking period as a nightmarish vision of privatization run amuck.
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150Philosophy – Auburn University 8th Austrian Scholars Conference 15-16 March 2002 [email protected]..
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Editorial to Symposium Issue on Studies in Mutualist Political EconomyJournal of Libertarian Studies 20 (1): 3-4. 2006.
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Editorial to Symposium: Market, Anarchism, Pro and ConJournal of Libertarian Studies 21 (1): 3. 2007.
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123Associate Professor | Director and President Department of Philosophy | Molinari Institute 6080 Haley Center, Auburn University Auburn AL 36849 USA email: [email protected] URL: praxeology.net..
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20of Freedom in America (New York: Penguin, 1995), p. 102.) More recently, David Kelley has distinguished three contemporary subcultures. One is the "Enlightenment" or Blog Entry..
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16Today I'm hoping to make you puzzled about a problem that has puzzled me on and off over the years. Misery loves company, I suppose -- though the problem doesn't actually puzzle me at the moment, because at the moment I think I've got a solution to it. But I've thought this before, and found myself deceived; so I'm not breaking out the champagne just yet.
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