Difference between revisions of "What Is Wrong With Libertarianism"
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* [[Diversity In Libertarianism]] | * [[Diversity In Libertarianism]] | ||
| − | There is no one "real" libertarianism: libertarianism is heterogeneous. Libertarianism can be left or right, rationalist or antirationalist, essentialist or pragmatist, hardcore or soft core, based on rights or liberty or values, using Austrian or Chicago or other economics, statist or anarchist, political or philosophical, etc. This occurs in other viewpoints (conservatism, liberalism, etc.) as well: but what is wrong is using these different varieties as if they are the same. That is a fallacy of the shifting middle term. This problem is best avoided by focusing on individual arguments based on one libertarian viewpoint one at a time. | + | There is really no such thing as a coherent libertarian ideology or philosophy. Nor is there one "real" libertarianism: libertarianism is heterogeneous. Libertarianism can be left or right, rationalist or antirationalist, essentialist or pragmatist, hardcore or soft core, based on rights or liberty or values, using Austrian or Chicago or other economics, statist or anarchist, political or philosophical, etc. This occurs in other viewpoints (conservatism, liberalism, etc.) as well: but what is wrong is using these different varieties as if they are the same. That is a fallacy of the shifting middle term. This problem is best avoided by focusing on individual arguments based on one libertarian viewpoint one at a time. |
* [[Libertarians Misunderstand Rights]] | * [[Libertarians Misunderstand Rights]] | ||
