Left-Libertarianism and Its Critics The Contemporary Debate [Hardcover]

This book contains the most important contemporary discussions of the philosophical foundations of left-libertarianism. Like the more familiar right-libertarianism (such as that of Nozick), left-libertarianism holds that agents own themselves (and thus owe no service the others expect as the result of voluntary action). Unlike right-libertarianism, however, left-libertarianism holds that natural resources are owned by the members of society in some egalitarian manner, and may be appropriated only with their permission, or with a significant payment to them.Preface Introduction: Left-Libertarianism; P.Vallentyne PART I: CONTEMPORARY STATEMENTS ON LEFT-LIBERTARIANISM Natural Property Tights; A.Gibbard Redistribution Without Egalitarianism; B.Brody Autonomous Ownership; J.Grunebaum Original Rights and Just Redistribution; H.Steiner Real-libertarianism; P.V.Parijs Self-Ownership and Equality, A Lockean Reconciliation; M.Otsuka PART II: CONTEMPORARY DISCUSSION OF OWNERSHIP OF SELF, NATURAL RESOURCES, AND ARTEFACTS Distributive Justice; R.Nozick Entrepreneurship, Entitlement, and Economic Justice; I.Kirzner Property and Exchange; M.Rothbard Natural Property Rights as Body Rights; S.Wheeler Self-Ownership, World-Ownership, and Equality; G.A.Cohen Self-Ownership, World Ownership, and Equality, Part II; G.A.Cohen Parents and Children; R.Nozick Property Rights and the Self-Ownership Argument; W.Kymlicka Lockean Self-Ownership: Towards a Demolition; R.Arneson Self-Ownership, Equality, and the Structure of Property Rights; J.Christman Neo-Lockeanism and Self-Ownership; J.Roemer IndexPETER VALLENTYNE is Professor of Philosophy at the Virginia Commonwealth University. He has written on a variety of issues in consequentialist moral theory, and edited Contractarianism and Rational Choice: Essays on the Work of David Gauthier (1991). He is currently developing a version of left-libertarianism (combining self-ownership with egalitarianism).

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