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<!-- you can have any number of categories here --> [[Category:Jeffrey Friedman]] [[Category:Scholasticism]] [[Category:Property]] [[Category:Libertarians Criticizing Each Other]] [[Category:Failures Of Libertarian Philosophy]] [[Category:Fallacies Of Ideology]] [[Category:Positive and Negative Liberty]] {{Quote | text = To my knowledge, all libertarian philosophers (except Conway), from Hayek to Nozick to James Buchanan to lesser-known writers such as Antony Flew and Tibor Machan, reject the positive-libertarian alternative, preferring to rely on the claim that only negative liberty is “real” liberty. It may be surprising that, 700 years after the collapse of [[Scholasticism]], there should still be philosophers who assume that there are “correct” and “incorrect” definitions of words. But it would be a mistake to underestimate how important to libertarian philosophy is the conviction that only negative liberty captures the “essence” of the word liberty. Even if negative liberty is “true” liberty (and even if liberty is intrinsically valuable), however, this cannot constitute an argument for libertarianism without the further assumption that negative liberty is either uniquely or relatively embodied in libertarianism. The assumption that liberty is embodied in libertarianism relatively more than in other systems is necessarily false, howeve -- unless we are speaking of positive liberty -- since, as we have seen, there is no difference in the amount of negative liberty afforded people by libertarianism and by competing systems of property law. | cite = [[Jeffrey Friedman]], "{{Link |What's Wrong With Libertarianism}}" }}
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