Surely one of the most significant occurrences on the intellectual scene during the past few years has been the emergence of a professor of philosophy at Harvard University as an eloquent and forceful spokesman for the doctrine of Libertarianism. Indeed, so much attention and praise has been lately showered upon the man, Robert Nozick, and his
[ Libertarian Forum , 1971] “Revolution” has been defined, by all too many libertarians, as well as by most other people, as simply massive acts of direct violence. But “revolution” is really the application of Aristotelian final causality to the process of social and political change, and should not be confused with throwing bricks or any other
[Foreword to the 1974 edition of Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays .] Historians and anthologists of anarchist thought, in comparing the great libertarian classics with other schools of political philosophy, have always been eager to mention the fact that no anarchist theorist has ever been on the level of a Marx or
[ Libertarian Review (1974)] Anyone concerned with individual liberty must begin to feel a deep sense of melancholy when he undertakes even a cursory examination of reason the history of the state apparatus. And it is sobering indeed to spend a few evenings reading Bertrand de Jouvenel’s classic work on the subject: On Power: The Nature and the
The Journal of Libertarian Studies , Volume 1, Number 3 (1977)
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