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Benefiting from injustice and brute luck [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Many political philosophers maintain that beneficiaries of injustice are under special obligations to assist victims of injustice. However, the examples favored by those who endorse this view equally support an alternative luck egalitarian view, which ...
Knight, C.
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The Libertarian Argumentation Ethics, the Tranascendental Pragmatics of Language, and the Conflict-Freedom Principle

open access: yesAnaliza i Egzystencja, 2022
The purpose of the presented paper is to showcase the links between Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s libertarian argumentation ethics and Karl-Otto Apel’s transcendental pragmatics with a special reference to the consensus theory of truth proposed by the latter ...
Norbert Slenzok
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A Libertarian Response to Macleod 2012: “If You’re a Libertarian, How Come You’re So Rich?” [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This is a response to Macleod 2012's argument that the history of unjust property acquisitions requires rich libertarians to give away everything in excess of equality. At first, problematic questions are raised. How much property is usually inherited or
Lester, J. C.
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Libertarian Justice

open access: yesCivitas. Studia z Filozofii Polityki, 2009
An article describes liberal theories of justice presented by John Rawls and Robert Nozick. Both of these competing liberal theories, Rawls’s and Nozick’s, share a similar rationalist approach. Both philosophers start out with assumptions about human nature and from there proceed to deduce a theory of justice upon which they in turn base their vision ...
openaire   +3 more sources

The Understanding of libertarianism [PDF]

open access: yesAnaliza i Egzystencja, 2015
This scientific article treats of libertarianism. This school of political thought is based on methodological individualism, methodological subjectivism, anti-empiricism, apriorism. Libertarian philosophers demand almost absolute freedom in every area of
Hubert Staśkiewicz
doaj  

A Rational Theory of the Rights of Children

open access: yesStudia Humana, 2020
Libertarianism has often found itself under attack from those with misplaced maternal instincts, who champion the state as the honorable protector of the vulnerable – and there is no one more in need of protection than a helpless infant.
Hersum Ian
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Vallentyne 2010 and Zwolinski 2008 on "Libertarianism": Some Philosophical Responses to these Encyclopaedia Articles [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Vallentyne 2010 and Zwolinski 2008 are internet encyclopaedia articles on “libertarianism” which include various serious faults. Vallentyne 2010 has the following ones.
Lester, J. C.
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An Investigation of the Relationship Between Central Bank Unconventional Monetary Policy and Bitcoin Activity

open access: yesInternational Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article investigates whether the unconventional monetary policy (UMP) measures pursued by the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, and the European Central Bank since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) are associated with an appetite for cryptocurrency.
Niamh Wylie, Martha O'Hagan‐Luff
wiley   +1 more source

What's Wrong with Libertarianism: A Meritocratic Diagnosis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Some people may think that libertarianism and meritocracy have much in common; that the libertarian's ideal world looks like the meritocrat's ideal world; and that the public policies guiding us to each are one and the same.
Mulligan, Thomas
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Membership‐Making in Diverse Societies: Revisiting the Idea of Society as a Common Possession

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The traditional aim of Western social democracy has been to create a society that is a ‘common possession’ of its members (in T.H. Marshall's words). Social democratic politics has therefore been both society‐making and membership‐making, orienting people to a shared society as an object of attachment and loyalty, and nurturing membership ...
Will Kymlicka
wiley   +1 more source

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