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It would be nice if there was a simple dismissal of libertarianism, but there are so many different kinds that no one argument could apply.
 
It would be nice if there was a simple dismissal of libertarianism, but there are so many different kinds that no one argument could apply.
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metaphysical (the original use) versus political
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normative (versus positive) theoryleft and right
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    4 types in "Utopia"
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    rationalist vs. antirationalist
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    essentialist vs. pragmatist libertarians
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        http://www.davidbrin.com/libertarianarticle2.html
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    "Justice For The Here And Now", Sterba
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        distinguishes Spencerian and Lockean libertarians, based on primacy of
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        liberty or rights.  Shows how either results in requirement for basic
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        positive rights.
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        Rebuts Machan, Rasmussen, Hospers, Mack, and Narvesson.
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    Basis of desires versus liberty.
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        "Both Hayek and Rothbard maintain that, in societies like
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        theirs, the desirable always concords with liberty (or maximal
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        liberty). Rothbard achieved this concordance by molding his
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        sensibilities about the desirable to fit his definition of
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        liberty. Hayek achieved this concordance by molding his
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        definition of liberty to fit his sensibilities about the
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        desirable.
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        http://www.vaz1.net/bill/anarchism/library/MereLibertarianism.html
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    D Friedman hardcore vs soft core
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        ideologues versus preferences (gut)
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        http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/2008/08/two-paths-for-libertarian-party.html
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    Right, left, and other
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        http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/libertarianism/
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        Radical right libertarians -- such as Rothbard (1978, 1982) and Kirzner (1978)
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        Lockean right-libertarians -- such as Nozick (1974)
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        Georgist libertarianism -- as developed, for example, by George (1879, 1892) and Steiner (1977, 1980, 1981, 1994)
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        ethical libertarianism
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        political libertarianism
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        philosophical libertarianism (free will)
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        left/right/socialist (Karl Widerquist's encyclopedia article)
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    value vs right (Narvesson)
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        http://www.againstpolitics.com/libertarianism/
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        (1) that liberty is the sole value to be promoted by governments and
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        individuals (sometimes called the "teleological" version of
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        libertarianism) and
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        (2) that liberty is our sole right (sometimes called "deontological"
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        libertarianism; this is the view that the word "libertarianism",
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        unqualified, is generally taken to stand for nowadays.)
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    "the right" versus "the good"?
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    rights theory, consequentialist, human flourishing
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        http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2004_07_28.shtml#1091184329
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    Primary division of libertarians:
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        consequentialists (Hume, Hayek, Epstein, Rand)
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        natural rights (Nozick, etc.)
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        see http://www.reason.com/9903/bk.ls.fuzzy.html
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    LP vs non-LP
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    LP vs LP reform
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    Austrian vs. Chicago economics
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    Rawlsekians
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        http://www.amconmag.com/article/2008/jul/28/00024//
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        Rawls' liberty principle appeals to the so-called Rawlsekians, a group
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        http://www.amconmag.com/article/2008/jul/28/00024//
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        Rawls' liberty principle appeals to the so-called Rawlsekians, a group
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        of young libertarians who want to combine the views of Rawls with those
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        of Friedrich Hayek, but Rawls himself was no Hayekian.
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    So you can see, libertarianism can attract two types of people:
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        1- Those that are libertarian because they agree with the libertarian means of minimal government.
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        2- Those that are libertarian because they believe that libertarian means will produce the end result that they desire.
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        http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/2/27/15718/5328
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Samuel Freeman does a good job of showing how libertarian ideas of property differ
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from liberal ideas in his "Illiberal Libertarians: Why Libertarianism Is Not a
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Liberal View" paper, Philosophy & Public
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Affairs, Vol. 30 n. 2. Locke is neither libertarian nor liberal on property
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on this account, and I think that's the right interpretation.)
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Classification of liberals.
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        Having no conception of a political society, libertarians have no
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        conception of the common good, those basic interests of each individual
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        that according to liberals are to be maintained for the sake of justice
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        by the impartial exercise of public political power. (page 149;
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        footnote omitted)
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        "that libertarianism's resemblance to liberalism is superficial; in the
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        end, libertarians reject essential liberal institutions. Correctly
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        understood, libertarianism resembles a view that liberalism historically
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        defined itself against, the doctrine of private political power that
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        underlies feudalism. Like feudalism, libertarianism conceives of
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        justified political power as based in a network of private contracts.
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        It rejects the idea, essential to liberalism, that political power is
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        a public power, to be impartially exercised for the common good."
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1 classical liberals:  laissez fair, but allows redistribution to preserve mkts
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        allow's property-owner's state (p123)
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2 high liberals:        philosophical liberalism and institutions
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3 libertarians
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Locke's Second Treatise par. 73, 120, 138, 139 show government has authority to
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regulate, tax, and burden property for the common good.
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Liberalism (classical or high) has 6 institutional features (p123):
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        1. the public recognition and legal enforcement of basic rights and
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          liberties equally provided for all citizens
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        2. some account of equality of opportunity with open careers and
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          positions
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        3. a central role assigned to efficient markets in allocating
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          productive resources
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        4. government's role in the production of public goods
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        5. government's duty to provide a social minimum
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        6. the public nature of political authority
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"the right" versus "the good".
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"The right" in this sense is what Robyn Eckersley defines as "the idea that
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the common structure of political action should constrain and limit what
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elected governments may decide in the name of the state, what citizens may do
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in pursuit of their own conceptions of the good life and what economic actors
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may do in pursuit of economic gain."

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