Profiles

David Gordon is a powerful intellectual champion for liberty and he does it with wisdom and and his own unique style, and we have all benefited by it. All of the essays in the Festschrift seek to explain and defend liberty, and in so doing, honor the work and live of David Gordon.

Patrick M. O'Neil and David Osterfeld have offered some criticisms of our natural end interpretation and defense of Rand's ethics. This essay is a rejoinder to these criticisms. It consists of two parts: (I)a reply to O'Neil and (II)a reply to Osterfeld. In the case of the latter, we will confine...

Murray Rothbard, in a paper entitled "The Ethics of Liberty," argued that the standard for moral goodness is set by man's nature. Whatever fulfills the nature of a living thing is good, and whatever diminishes the nature of a living thing is bad. When the living thing in question is a human being...