Jan Narveson

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Comments on Colin Williams’s Arguments Against Spooner

07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies Jan Narveson

Colin Williams, “Contra Spooner,” argues that Lysander Spooner is wrong about the state’s being the “instrument of robbery, slavery, and murder.” He begins by observing, accurately enough, that...

Discussion: Must we Choose between Chandran Kukathas’s “Two Constructions of Libertarianism”?

04/28/2009 Libertarian Papers Jan Narveson

Volume 1, Article 22 (2009) Introduction Chandran Kukathas argues that we have a problem in how to understand Libertarianism, and that this problem requires us to choose between two views, each of...

Present Payments, Past Wrongs: Correcting Loose Talk about Nozick and Rectification

02/04/2009 Libertarian Papers Jan Narveson

The Problem Stated According to Nozick (and Locke and innumerable others), what has come to be termed “distributive justice” is a matter of goods going to those who made or found them, or to those who...

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