Self-Ownership and the Limits of Libertarianism
2005; Florida State University; Volume: 31; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5840/soctheorpract200531423
ISSN2154-123X
Autores Tópico(s)Legal and Constitutional Studies
ResumoIn the longstanding debate between liberals and libertarians1 over the morality of redistribute labor taxation, liberals such as John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin have consistently taken the position that such taxation is perfectly compatible with individual liberty,2 whereas libertarians such as Robert Nozick and Murray Rothbard have adopted the (very) contrary position that such taxation is tantamount to slavery.3 I will demonstrate over the course of this paper that their debate over redistributive labor taxation can be usefully reconstituted as a debate over the incidents (or components) of self-ownership, with liberals making the case for a nar
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