Karl Popper once said: I do believe in freedom and reason, but I do not think that one can construct a simple, practical and fruitful…
Tag: Libertarianism
In my previous post, I talked about the difficulties libertarians have even just agreeing with each other over what constitutes an ‘initial use of force.’…
Thomas Szasz seems to be popular in certain Popperian circles, so I shouldn’t be surprised to find that they corresponded and Szasz saw his own…
Libertarians claim that the foundational moral principle of libertarianism is that it is immoral to “initiate force.” This concept of “initial use of force” –…
An argument made by anarcho-capitalists is that anarcho-capitalism can be thought of as the idea that we should prefer voluntary interactions over non-voluntary ones. Because…
In a previous post A Libertarian Account of Original Appropriation I described how libertarians understood the concept of “original appropriation” and ended up both criticizing…
In this post, I am going to consider a Voluntarist account of the founding of the United States of America. Of interest is that Logan’s…
In Logan Chipkin’s interview of Stephan Kinsella (starting about here) Kinsella explains the Libertarian concept of “Original Appropriation.” Kinsella says that we will need a…
How do libertarians (and here I specifically mean the anarcho-capitalist variety) believe policing and court systems might work without a state? I had a chance…
If one takes the anarcho-libertarian concept of private property seriously, then there is no ‘freedom of speech’ in any fundamental sense. Rather, the only genuine…