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Fishkin on Nozick's Absolute Rights

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07/30/2014Tibor R. Machan

In his recent work, Tyranny and Legitimacy, James Fishkin advances an argument against Roben Nozick's theory of, what Fishkin calls, "absolute rights" by trying to demonstrate that such a theory would legitimate tyranny.

Volume 6, Number 3 (1982)

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Tibor R. Machan

Tibor R. Machan (1939 - 2016) was a Hoover research fellow, Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, Auburn University, Alabama, and held the R. C. Hoiles Endowed Chair in Business Ethics and Free Enterprise at the Argyros School of Business & Economics, Chapman University.

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Machan, Tibor. "Fishkin on Nozick's Absolute Rights." Journal of Libertarian Studies 6, No. 3 (1982): 317–320.