Artigo Acesso aberto Revisado por pares

Self-Ownership and the Limits of Libertarianism

2005; Florida State University; Volume: 31; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5840/soctheorpract200531423

ISSN

2154-123X

Autores

Robert S. Taylor,

Tópico(s)

Legal and Constitutional Studies

Resumo

In 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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