[conservativephilosopher-announce] New post at The Conservative Philosopher

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Mon Apr 11 19:59:29 EDT 2005


Hello,
	There is a new post on The Conservative Philosopher.  You can read it at:

http://www.conservativephilosopher.com/posts/1113263965.shtml

It begins:

	Over the past few decades, there has been
	increasing interest in left-libertarianism, which
	holds (roughly) that agents fully own themselves
	and that natural resources (land, minerals, air,
	and the like) belong to everyone in some
	egalitarian sense. Left-libertarianism agrees with
	the more familiar right-libertarianism about
	self-ownership, but radically disagrees with it
	about the power to acquire ownership of natural
	resources. Merely being the first person to claim,
	discover, or mix labor with an unappropriated
	natural resources does not—left-libertarianism
	insists—generate a full private property right in
	that natural resource. Left-libertarianism seems
	promising because it recognizes both strong
	individual rights of liberty and...



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