Libertarian

Mini Essay #1: U.S Political Parties Some extant political parties in the United States today that hold different positions on key issues. The six major political parties are the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, the Libertarian Party, the Green Party, the Constitution Party, and the Peace and Freedom Party. The Republican Party is one of the parties of the United States’ two-party system. Some key platforms of the Republican Party are the Electoral College, traditional marriage, coal…

John Rawls follows a high liberal tradition of thought, asserting that a distributive pattern of justice is most correct. On the other hand, in his book Anarchy, State and Utopia, Robert Nozick argues for an emergent approach to justice, rooted in libertarian philosophy. Lastly, John Tomasi, in his book Free Market Fairness, offers the most compelling argument of the three. Tomasi purports that the market democratic approach to justice is the appropriate…

Libertarianism believe that to increase political and economic freedom and skepticism to government planning and authority. Friedrich Hayek is an Australian-Hungarian economist and defender of the libertarian ideology. He looks at the concepts of liberty through the idea that the market and competitions and the state is will only interfere in his idea of liberties. He believes that economic planning was very bad, because it did not allow for free markets. This can be seen when he talks about…

The idea of moral responsibility is argued between determinists and libertarians, with the division being caused by the possibility of free will. Steven Cahn offers an explanation of the different views of free will with the three opinions being hard determinism, soft determinism, and libertarianism. In this writing, I am going to explain Cahn’s viewpoint, and his idea that freedom is not compatible with determinism. The setting for this argument begins with a criminal trial from the early…

According to the hard determinists, our everyday actions are not determined by our free will, as we do not have control over what caused it. Soft determinists would argue that we have free will to an extent, while libertarians would claim that we have complete choice in our decisions and subsequent actions. Hard determinists would claim that because we are stuck in a delusional state of believing we have free will, we would mistakenly think that all our actions are voluntary…

or influence our decisions, limit what we can do, and just so much more. So you can imagine that political ideology, your stance on all of that, plays a huge role. The three ideologies I've been asked to discuss are liberal, conservative, and libertarian. Liberals, as the name implies, are open to new behaviors and policies and are willing to discard traditional values if it means society's advancement towards the well-being of the individual and equality in general. It's for this reason that…

Are schools in England socially just? There are many different types of schools that exist, such as private schooling, payment by result schools, comprehensive/grammar schools, public schools and others. Many of these types of schools’ policies are socially unjustified. Education gives us all access to qualification in England. However there are still some people that get more than others, how is this fair? This could because of many things such as, girls have higher educational attainment than…

various issues which get quite complicated sometimes. Libertarians can range from free market anarchism, the belief that supports the idea of “self governed” people and institutions (These are often described as stateless societies.) to those who support some degree of wellbeing of the state. All of these beliefs are tied by the ideas of individual freedom, economic freedom and limited government. When speaking in terms of healthcare Libertarians believe reducing government involvement or…

The governing philosophy that I most closely identify with is liberal. When first discussing the ideologies in class, I was hesitant on what philosophy best fit me. After research, I found a close resemblance with the liberal stance in government’s role and opinion in political issues. For example, I believe the government should be more restricted in moral issues, such as abortion and same-sex marriage. In addition, I understand that the free market doesn’t always work and isn’t fair to…

“suboptimization” which is the failure to achieve as much as one could have been achieved through cooperation. (Hudson, 2016 pg. 116/117) He also utilizes the “Tragedy of the Commons” along with the “Prisoner's Dilemma” to illustrate flaws in Libertarian philosophy. However, although extreme radical individualism could be a problem if you were to shut yourself out from the rest of the world I believe Hudson has a flawed…