“Universally Preferable Behavior” by Stefan Molyneux, “Argumentation Ethics” by Hans Hermann Hoppe, and of course Objectivism, to name the most famous ones. Generally the ones I’m referring to all try to deduce some sort of Objective Ethics and (surprise) it turns out that property rights are an inherent property of the universe and capitalism is a moral imperative.
Forgive me if you’re thinking of some other libertarians who don’t have crazy ethical theories. I didn’t mean to make gross generalizations. I’ve just observed that libertarian philosophers who consciously promote their theories of ethics tend to be of this flavor.
There’s lots of different libertarian theories of ethics. Can you be more specific?
“Universally Preferable Behavior” by Stefan Molyneux, “Argumentation Ethics” by Hans Hermann Hoppe, and of course Objectivism, to name the most famous ones. Generally the ones I’m referring to all try to deduce some sort of Objective Ethics and (surprise) it turns out that property rights are an inherent property of the universe and capitalism is a moral imperative.
Forgive me if you’re thinking of some other libertarians who don’t have crazy ethical theories. I didn’t mean to make gross generalizations. I’ve just observed that libertarian philosophers who consciously promote their theories of ethics tend to be of this flavor.