I have only been studying philosophy, formally and informally, for about a year. In this time I have come across a wealth of theories, and formulated a few of my own. This also happens to be the period in which I have become a libertarian. First I was a mixed economy-ist, and although I certainly had...
I've been a part of numerous online social networks or general social groups online that contains some amoralist anarchists, who either are former libertarian anarchists who have come to reject libertarianism or they are anarchists who rejected libertarianism from the get-go and reached the conclusion...
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on Thu, Jan 22 2009
Filed under: Anarchism, Non-Aggression Axoim, Ethics, Natural Rights, Libertarianism, Philosophy, Stefan Molyneux
I contend that the non-aggression principle is not a contextless axoim and it requires a specific definition of the difference between genuine self-defense and the initiation of violence. There is a grave problem that thin libertarianism and plumb-line libertarianism runs into, which is that the non...
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on Sun, Jan 18 2009
Filed under: Objectivism, Non-Aggression Axoim, Ethics, Libertarianism, Philosophy, Vulgar Libertarianism
The question of children's rights and familial authority is often regaurded as a grey area for libertarians, as it remains an issue of contention. I generally take a fairly anti-authoritarian view on the matter. While I think that Murray Rothbard's views on children's rights that he expressed...
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on Thu, Jan 15 2009
Filed under: Ethics, Libertarianism, Stefan Molyneux, Murray Rothbard, The Family, Psychology, Children's Rights
In various articles in the past I have made a monist objection to a dualistic concept of self-ownership due to the problems that an absolute mind/body dichotomy leads to. To summarize the problem: who exactly is it that is doing the owning? If I own it, then it is not me. If I am owned, than I am not...
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Filed under: Ethics, Personal Freedom, Individual Sovereignty, Libertarianism, Philosophy