Libertarian

responsibility. Freewill means that we should be held morally responsible for the actions that we freely preform. Libertarians hold the view that moral responsibility require freedom, they suggest we have a sense of self-determination and freedom in order to act. Libertarians are also described to be in-compatibilists, as they argue that freewill cannot be compatible with determinism. Libertarians hold the conscience a non-empirical concept of great importance; the conscience is the idea that…

agents and should live the consequences of our actions. Though, I feel that such proposals make more sense from a compatibilist point of view. For all we know, compatibilism doesn’t rule out the notion of agent responsibility nor does fully accept libertarian free will. That compatibilism offers a “shallow reasoning” for the notion of unjust punishment does not seem like a sufficient reason to fully dismiss it. Why not fix the shallow reasoning and propose an alternative instead of proposing new…

Roderick T Long’s article entitled, “Corporations versus the Market; or, Whip Conflation Now” explores the link between the free market and the rise of big business and corporations. Specifically, Long questions the motives of libertarian free market advocates of simultaneously legitimizing plutocratic corporations. He begins by pointing out that a completely free market and big business are at odds, utilizing many examples of government intervention propping up corporations and their businesses…

themselves, such as their labor. Abortion, when faced with Libertarian…

elections, the active participation of the people in politics and civic life, the protection of the human rights of all citizens, and a rule of law and procedures that apply equally to all citizens” (What is Democracy). In lure of this definition, Libertarian philosophy, as interpreted by David Boaz, is based on the fundamental right of freedom, raising the question of who has the right to decide this particular aspect of your life. For the purpose of this paper, “libertarianism is the…

purist interpretation of these freedoms and often an unequivocal loyalty to the U.S. Constitution. Through this lens, what Hospers and other Libertarians define as…

One distinction from the causal flow of determinism is transeunt causes vs. immanent causes. Chisholm defended the view of agent-causation, where agents are capable of causing their own acts. This is the idea of the “uncaused cause” as he states that events cannot happen by chance and have to be caused by something, the agent. To explain transeunt and immanent causation, the game of billiards is needed. Transeunt causation, or event causation, is where an event causes movement, while immanent…

The right role of government can be separated into three theories in how government can be integrated into the lives of people when considering the libertarian view on limited government inclusion in the lives of everyday people, along with liberal views on redistribution and the views of Aristotle on government. Both Libertarian and Liberals speak about many similar issues, however, share contrast differences on topics such as taxation, self-ownership, and economic prosperity. The third theory,…

The libertarian Party of the United States has had a record breaking year as far as voter support goes a with a 6.7 percent polling average (Scher 2016). In the past voting turn out for the libertarian party had reached its all-time high by hardly surpassing 1 percent of the vote; however, with Gary Johnson as the parties presidential candidate they have seen much more popularity. This potential electoral outcome of over 5 percent could mean the establishment of the party according to the…

Alex Newkirk Business Ethics 10/13/14 1.) Salami-Slicing Scenario For section 1 I chose act utilitarian. I chose act utilitarian because its works it considers the value of the actions consequence. In this situation from an act utilitarian perspective it would be morally permissible to create and use this account skimming program, because an act utilitarian is primarily concerned about the value of the consequences of the actions they have committed and the people it benefits. For example…