Libertarianism without self-ownership

• Main Author: KUKATHAS, Chandran
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: self-ownership; libertarianism; nonaggression; property; anarchism; Mabo; Nozick; Rothbard; state; redistribution; Ethics and Political Philosophy
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3849; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5107/viewcontent/libertarianism_without_self_ownership.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Libertarianism is a political philosophy whose defenders have set its foundations in the principle of self-ownership. But self-ownership supplies an uncertain basis for such a theory as it is prone to a number of serious difficulties, some of which have been addressed by libertarians but none of which can ultimately be overcome. For libertarianism to be a plausible way of looking at the world, it must look elsewhere for its basic principles. In particular, it needs to rethink the way it understands property and its foundations.