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To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice.

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It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.
If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?
Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not…
Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as…
But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as…
Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.
The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white…
The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is…
It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.
To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter…
At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual…
Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of…

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