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Do slaves have "self-ownership"?
I'd like to extend on my criticism of Hoppe's argumentation ethics by concretizing the point about the difference between "self-ownership" as it is used ontologically and "self-ownership" as it is used ethically. I realize...
Posted Mon, Mar 16 2009 by Brainpolice | 2 comment(s)
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Lysander Spooner: Libertarian Hero
The American individualist anarchist Lysander Spooner was one of the last natural law philosophers of the 19th century, and his crowning achievement is arguably the total demolition of the myth of the social contract. Spooner applied a libertarian theory...
Posted Wed, Jan 28 2009 by Brainpolice | with no comments
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On Amoralist Anarchism
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...
Posted Thu, Jan 22 2009 by Brainpolice | 7 comment(s)
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More On The Problems Of A Thin Libertarianism
A number of years ago, Walter Block wrote this article , in which he claims, "libertarianism is a theory concerned with the justified use of aggression, or violence, based on property rights, not morality". I find this claim to be incredibly...
Posted Tue, Jan 20 2009 by Brainpolice | 4 comment(s)
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Is self-ownership a misnomer?
If something is owned, then by definition there is something external to it that is doing the owning. Likewise, something that is owned is by definition something external to the agent that owns it. Taking this very basic point into account, does it really...
Posted Tue, Sep 16 2008 by Brainpolice | 10 comment(s)
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