Philosophy and Methodology

Mention the name of Herbert Spencer to the average person and, if he is familiar with it at all, he is likely to say that Spencer was a political t

Although ethical systems may be divided into those which claim to be objective and those which freely acknowledge their own subjectivity, a special

One of the most important areas in which Cantillon influenced J. B.

To state with precision and force the economic and moral imperative of the free market has been of the utmost concern to some of civilization&#8217

It is not actually possible to describe what a system of privately produced law and order would be like in modem society because one cannot describ

Michael Levin’s Feminism and Freedom is the work of a supremely courageous individual.

In reviewing the contributions of Adam Smith to the growth of economics Hans Brems writes that “[m]uch of what Smith had to say had been said

Libertarianism -the political philosophy based on the concept of individual rights -seems to be an inherently clear, unambiguous position.

The original version of this paper was delivered at the Sixth Annual Libertarian Scholars Conference, held in October 1978 at Princeton University,

The theory of natural rights is often put forward as competition of moral relativism, most recently in an article in this journal by Loren Lomasky.