The Myths of the Self-Ownership Thesis

Authors

Jason Brennan, Georgetown University
Bas van der Vossen, Chapman UniversityFollow

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Description

"As a result, every reasonable or remotely plausible theory of justice will have to recognize some role for the self-ownership thesis. And disputes between libertarians and left-liberals are not really about whether individuals are self-owners, but rather about which conception of self-ownership is the correct one. So, self-ownership is not a myth. But there are a number of myths about it, including A) that’s a foundational premise in libertarian, especially Robert Nozick’s, thought, and B) that left-liberals deny it while libertarians accept it."

ISBN

9780367870591

Publication Date

12-10-2019

Publisher

Routledge

City

New York, NY

Keywords

libertarianism, self-ownership

Disciplines

Ethics and Political Philosophy

Comments

In Jason Brennan, Bas van der Vossen, and David Schmidt (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism.

Recommended Citation

Brennan, J., and van der Vossen, B. (2017). “The Myths of the Self-Ownership Thesis”. In: J. Brennan, B. van der Vossen, and D. Schmidtz (eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism. New York: Routledge.

Copyright

Taylor & Francis