Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
2-2020
Abstract
Libertarianism is a political philosophy whose defenders have set its foundations in the principle of self-ownership. But self-ownership supplies an uncertain basis for such a theory as it is prone to a number of serious difficulties, some of which have been addressed by libertarians but none of which can ultimately be overcome. For libertarianism to be a plausible way of looking at the world, it must look elsewhere for its basic principles. In particular, it needs to rethink the way it understands property and its foundations.
Keywords
self-ownership, libertarianism, nonaggression, property, anarchism, Mabo, Nozick, Rothbard, state, redistribution
Discipline
Ethics and Political Philosophy
Research Areas
Political Science
Publication
Social Philosophy and Policy
Volume
36
Issue
2
First Page
71
Last Page
93
ISSN
0265-0525
Identifier
10.1017/S0265052519000505
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Citation
KUKATHAS, Chandran.(2020). Libertarianism without self-ownership. Social Philosophy and Policy, 36(2), 71-93.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3849
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265052519000505