Natural Rights Debate: A Comment On a Reply

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07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies David Osterfeld

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In his “A Groundwork for Rights: Man’s Natural End,” Douglas Rasmussen takes issue with a paper I presented at the Fifth Annual Libertarian Scholar’s Conference in which I was concerned with the difficulty of demonstrating the validity of natural rights doctrines in general and the libertarian natural rights doctrines in particular.

Volume 7, Number 1 (1983)

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Osterfeld, David. “Natural Rights Debate: A Comment On a Reply.” Journal of Libertarian Studies 7, No. 1 (1983): 101–113.

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