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Liberty, Games and Contracts
Jan Narveson and the Defence of Libertarianism
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About this book
Jan Narveson is one of the most significant contemporary defenders of the libertarian political position. Unlike other libertarians who typically defend their view with reference to natural rights or an appeal to utilitarianism, Narveson's main contribution has been to offer a philosophical defence of libertarianism based on a Hobbesian individualist contractarian ethic. Critiques of Narveson's contractarian libertarianism fall into three categories, those that reject contractarian moral theory, those that reject any link between contractarianism and libertarianism and those that accuse libertarians of conflating liberty with property. In this book Malcolm Murray brings together the most significant of Narveson's critics and presents their work alongside replies by Jan Narveson.
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Index
All index entries shown here correspond to the page numbers within the printed edition only. Within this digital format these page numbers allow for cross referencing only.
abortion 49
acquisition 154, 163, 165–6, 174
defined 235
initial 79, 174, 176n5
just 168
by manufacture 163
principle of 157, 159
by trade 163
adaptations 188
addicts 86–8, 92, 224–5
Adeimantus 2
advantage
of agreements 5, 12, 14, 181, 189
of contractarianism 13
of convention 189
delayed 181
of groups 183, 189, 237
of property 237
rational 67
reproductive 122
of the strong 190
temporary 26
threat 141
universal 51
of war 126n4, 223
without restraint 22
advantaged 190–91
adversary 14
aesthetic
intuitions 55, 222
preferences 56, 222
aggression 104, 192, 228
agreement
abiding by 4–5, 31n23, 33–4, 36, 44, 58, 69–70, 116–17, 204, 209, 220
actual (real) 32n24, 33, 75, 220
ex ante 5, 115–17, 124
ex post 115–17
explicit 22
hypothetical 21
implicit (tacit) 72
rational 4, 8n3, 67–8
voluntary 134
Ahmad, R. 114n26
aims 2, 53, 83, 164
common 113
occurrent 115, 117–18, 1...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Notes on the Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Biographical Note on Jan Narveson
- Introduction
- I Contractarianism
- II From Contractarianism to Libertarianism
- III Property and Liberty
- IV Response
- Bibliography
- Index