Description

• Title:
  Freedom and Property Rights – Avoiding Circularity
• Creator:
  Wysocki, Igor
• Description:
  This paper argues that libertarians employ the notion of freedom inconsistently. They either resort to a descriptive notion of freedom of some sort in saying that any infringement on the owner’s property rights would diminish her freedom or they use a moralized definition of freedom positing that the exclusion (be it factual or normative) of non-owners from owners’ properties cannot contribute to any unfreedoms on the part of the former since they are merely prevented from doing something they do not have a right to do in the first place. On the positive note, I will suggest a purely descriptive (and therefore neutral) notion of freedom that would allow for making synthetic (as opposed to analytical) statements concerning freedoms (or unfreedoms for that matter) and property rights. Finally, I will argue why in a free society necessarily emergent unfreedoms are relatively unimportant compared to unfreedoms resultant in any other regime.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2019 Dialogi Polityczne
• Date:
  2018.06.15
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Political Dialogues; No. 24 (2018); 39-48;
  Dialogi Polityczne; Nr 24 (2018); 39-48;
  1730-8003
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/DP/article/view/DP.2018.003/16657
• Subject:
  freedom;
  libertarianism;
  property rights;
  circularity
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/DP/article/view/DP.2018.003
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text