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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)
Filed under: Individual Sovereignty, Natural Rights, Slavery, Libertarianism, Philosophy

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)
Filed under: Non-Aggression Axoim, Utilitarianism, Individual Sovereignty, Natural Rights, Libertarianism, Philosophy, Murray Rothbard

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)
Filed under: Objectivism, Ethics, Rational Egoism, Individual Sovereignty, Natural Rights, Libertarianism, Philosophy, Human Nature