Add to ORKGThis paper argues that libertarians should endorse some welfare rights understood as rights that all states must guarantee to their subjects as a condition of legitimacy. For, it argues that libertarians, because they should be actual consent theorists, must agree to the following condition for state legitimacy: States must do what they can to ensure that their rights-respecting subjects secure the basic reasoning and planning capacities they need to consent to their rules
(Revised 31-10-17) This is only one view on the topic; other views may be rather different. It start...
This is the age of the welfare state. The general assumption is that something is amiss if governmen...
The two purposes of this essay. The general philosophical problem with most versions of social liber...
This essay advances a libertarian theory of moral rights, which responds effectively to some serious...
Although many libertarians share similar moral foundations, they disagree about whether the state ca...
Many libertarians object to state-funded welfare systems because they think that the taxation necess...
Libertarianism is the political theory that the legitimate role of the state is limited to the prote...
Libertarians no longer argue, as they once did in the 1970s, about whether libertarianism must be gr...
Most libertarians regard the welfare state as morally illegitimate. This paper will examine why oppo...
The human rights that are defended in libertarian literature tend to be limited in scope, which enta...
In Part I this essay explores and then criticizes the two major arguments behind the conventional wi...
Libertarianism—and classical liberalism generally—entails (or presupposes) a specific, but implicit,...
In this essay I argue that the ethical and political position known as libertarianism is logically i...
(Revised 31-10-17) This is only one view on the topic; other views may be rather different. It start...
This is the age of the welfare state. The general assumption is that something is amiss if governmen...
The two purposes of this essay. The general philosophical problem with most versions of social liber...
This essay advances a libertarian theory of moral rights, which responds effectively to some serious...
Although many libertarians share similar moral foundations, they disagree about whether the state ca...
Many libertarians object to state-funded welfare systems because they think that the taxation necess...
Libertarianism is the political theory that the legitimate role of the state is limited to the prote...
Libertarians no longer argue, as they once did in the 1970s, about whether libertarianism must be gr...
Most libertarians regard the welfare state as morally illegitimate. This paper will examine why oppo...
The human rights that are defended in libertarian literature tend to be limited in scope, which enta...
In Part I this essay explores and then criticizes the two major arguments behind the conventional wi...
Libertarianism—and classical liberalism generally—entails (or presupposes) a specific, but implicit,...
In this essay I argue that the ethical and political position known as libertarianism is logically i...
(Revised 31-10-17) This is only one view on the topic; other views may be rather different. It start...
This is the age of the welfare state. The general assumption is that something is amiss if governmen...
The two purposes of this essay. The general philosophical problem with most versions of social liber...