Suchergebnisse

Pour qu'une personne ait des droits effectifs, les autres doivent avoir des devoirs. Si deux devoirs entrent en conflits ­ si la réalisation de l'un deux empêche celle d'un autre ­, il est nécessaire qu'au moins un des droits liés à ces devoirs ne soit pas valide. Ce papier défend l'idée qu'une la condition nécessaire et suffisante pour éviter de tels conflits est que tous les droits sont, ou sont réductibles à, des droits de propriété privéeˆ: droits à des objets matériels et des emplacements spatio-temporels.

The case for an unconditional basic income often founders on moral questions of distribution and reciprocity. But as Hillel Steiner explains, left libertarianism offers not only a robust justification of a basic income as compensation for private ownership of our natural inheritance, but a practical account of how it can be funded.

This essay argues that the proffered grounds for Cohen's rejection of market relations – that they are sustained by the base motives of greed and fear – are unsound and also unnecessary to explain the maximising behaviour induced by those relations.

This essay argues that a liberalism that avoids legal moralism – that is neutral between rival conceptions of the good – cannot embrace intervention in commercial transactions, but is thereby precluded neither from identifying some such transactions as exploitative nor from redressing them by other means.

The traditional Lockean account of a state's territorial rights construes them as arising from, and coextensive with, the property rights of whichever set of landowners mutually contract to form that state. The coherence of this individualistic account has recently been challenged by Cara Nine. I argue that the reasons offered in support of that incoherence charge are unpersuasive.