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

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265052519000505

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