Comments on: Why I failed to be Libertarian, and why I regret to say you should, too. http://inkanblot.com/blog/public-personal/why-i-failed-to-be-libertarian-and-why-i-regret-to-say-you-should-too/ Reflections and Reviews, Spiritual and Social Thu, 30 Mar 2017 03:34:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.1 By: Why I failed to be Libertarian, and why we still need a better way – Inkandescence http://inkanblot.com/blog/public-personal/why-i-failed-to-be-libertarian-and-why-i-regret-to-say-you-should-too/#comment-316 Thu, 28 Jul 2016 02:49:36 +0000 http://inkanblot.com/blog/?p=2687#comment-316 […] I’ve discussed the philosophical appeal of libertarianism, and its fatal flaws, […]

]]> By: pgepps http://inkanblot.com/blog/public-personal/why-i-failed-to-be-libertarian-and-why-i-regret-to-say-you-should-too/#comment-314 Thu, 28 Jul 2016 00:55:29 +0000 http://inkanblot.com/blog/?p=2687#comment-314 Yes, I definitely view the conception I’m seeing in the “self-ownership” movement recognized in the Libertarian Party platform as a whole logical step away from the more properly Lockean tradition. I’m glad we’re seeing the same thing, there.

[I think there is a more subtle critique even of Locke’s conception, here, but that gets way down in the “how each thinker uses the same words differently” weeds, and is wholly beside the point of this conversation.]

]]> By: Greg Forster http://inkanblot.com/blog/public-personal/why-i-failed-to-be-libertarian-and-why-i-regret-to-say-you-should-too/#comment-313 Wed, 27 Jul 2016 23:46:57 +0000 http://inkanblot.com/blog/?p=2687#comment-313 Side note: the idea that people own their bodies does not raise this problem in Locke, because Locke’s concept of “property” does not drive a metaphysical wedge between a person and his property – quite the opposite – and his concept of property is strongly anti-instrumental. Indeed, for him the assertion that human beings own their bodies as property is closely connected to the assertion that God owns human beings as property, and respect for human beings’ rights to life, liberty and (nonhuman) property is logically indistinguishable from respect for God’s property right in human beings.

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