Libertarian

activities. On Foreign policies, I feel that could be beneficial and is able to open connection to other countries. Foreign intervention in my opinion opens up the free market. These reasons are why I think I was placed as a "center-left moderate social libertarian." Comparing my results to the rest of the average quiz taker I would say I fall very close to them. With this I can draw a conclusion and say that the majority feels the same way as I do on political issues. The average, in fact, is…

The so called “war on drugs” is rife with controversy and heartache. For some, it is a frustrating cluster of bureaucracy and ineffectiveness. For others, it is a life-changing policy with disadvantageous or even disastrous results. The side of the war that instituted this policy, the government, has not benefitted in any meaningful way to continue to perpetuate it, and thus a radical change is on the table. My article, “Why We Should End the Failed War on Drugs (And Legalization is the Best…

“ It is commonly assumed that men are capable of acting freely, in the sense that is required to make them morally responsible, and that human behaviour is entirely goverened by casual laws; and it is the apparent conflict between these two assumptions that gives rise to the problem of the freedom of the will” The debate over free will and whether we can control of our destiny has been at the heart of philosophical debate for centuries. Philosopher such as Aristotle, Hume, William James, Ted…

will accomplish this by analyzing Richard Taylor’s assertion that determinism is inconsistent with the possibility of deliberating about one 's own future actions. I shall argue that Richard Taylor’s notion of libertarian freedom of an individual is false. An individual lacks the libertarian freedom to deliberate about one’s own future actions because there are causal factors from the past that sometimes necessitate a particular choice be chosen.. In Freedom and…

The topic of moral responsibility is a popular debate among philosophers. Moral responsibility and free will are tightly intertwined, making the argument slightly more complicated. Free will is defined in two ways: 1. open choice, which states you choose x freely only if you could have done otherwise, or 2. voluntary choice, which states you act freely if and only if you act voluntarily, without coercion or constraint. Determinism is defined: past events and the laws of nature fully determine…

determinism is true and correlates with free will and moral responsibility (i.e. meaning that freedom of choice is only valid in moral responsibility by personal motive, regardless of casual determination). Denial of the second premise derives from Libertarian Richard Taylor, who disagrees with determinism because human actions are “uncaused” and intelligible. He uses “uncaused” as a term referring to actions not caused by factors external to the agent (i.e. actions are done for a reason that…

However, because we do not live in a just world, Nozick incorporates a third principle: the rectification of injustice. This theory was compelling throughout the first time reading it, which initially surprised me because I do not identify as a libertarian. Upon going over this theory again, I see that it is flawed. It seems that this theory is assuming that all unjust transactions will be detected, which…

The Problem of Free Will: Libertarianism The problem of free will discusses whether or not there is free will and moral responsibility in one’s actions. Causal determinism, the idea that physical events and actions have physical causes, plays a main role in this debate because it determines whether a person has control over their actions (G. Tiller, personal communication, October 2015). In hard determinism, there is only causal determinism so, a person has no control over the choices they make…

James Madison and Alexander Hamilton opposed the idea of political parties. In fact, they wrote in Federalist papers 9 and 10 about how dangerous to the United States political parties would be. Our constitution was written with the idea that there would not be political parties. Another interesting thing is that our first President, George Washington, is the only US President to date that was not a member of a political party. It is important for members of Congress, which is comprised of the…

where children care for children and they learn social skills from their siblings (Lamb, Sternberg, Hwang, & Broberg, 1992). Ben’s children living in the wilderness put them in a unique position to only understand their own social behaviors and cues among each other. Another common practice in Cameroon is that at an age as young as three years old children start to assume domestic chores, taking care of the animals and fetching fire wood (Lamb, Sternberg, Hwang, & Broberg, 1992). Ben starts…