Natural Law. A Logical Analysis

Anarchocapitalism, at least in its Rothbardian version, presupposes the existence of a natural order or law of human affairs. First, there is a brief discussion of the distinction between orders of natural and orders of artificial persons. This is followed by a partial analysis of the notion of law as an order of persons. The analysis is presented as a formal axiomatic theory. Then the notion of a natural person as well as the postulates that we need for a description of natural law as an order of natural persons are introduced within that formal theory of the law of persons. The last two sections discuss various ways in which the theory of natural law can be linked to descriptions of human affairs, and contrast the anarchocapitalists’ view of the order of the human world with the alternatives that have come to dominate political and social thought

On the way to the voting booth

This chapter considers some ethical questions concerning an individual person's participation in elections the results of which are bound to affect many other people beside that particular individual

Argumentation ethics and the question of self-ownership

Abstract In his “Argumentation Ethics and the Question of Self-Ownership” (2015), Andrew T. Young claims that, next to Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s ethics of self-ownership, a subclass of systems based on every person owning part of every person also meets the criteria of being validated by the ethics of argumentation and is consistent with the requirements that an ethical system should qualify as a categorical imperative and allow for the physical survival of humanity. I argue that Young fails to understand argumentation ethics and that his alternative ethics cannot be considered categorically imperative; it is likely to stimulate rather than diminish political conflicts. _______________________