1.1 The question how much income inequality is acceptable All modern nations engage in active income redistribution and have a system that taxes the wealthy to a greater extent than the poor. Redistributive policies are accompanied by a continuous discussion on the question of how much income inequality is justified (e.g. Pen and Tinbergen, 1977; Sen, 1997). This discussion has an important ide...

Abstract Recently, there has been an effort to make libertarianism compatible with a redistributive inheritance tax: When the tax is levied, taxpayer in question already dead and as such she cannot be bearer of rights. The state therefore allowed redistribute (value of) estate according some distributive principle. I consider (and finally dismiss) four successive arguments, each concluding that...

ONE OF THE MOST prominent theorists of anarcho-capitalism is HansHermann Hoppe. In what is perhaps his most famous result, the argumentation ethic for libertarianism, he purports to establish an a priori defense of the justice of a social order based exclusively on private property. Hoppe claims that all participants in a debate must presuppose the libertarian principle that every person owns h...

Can Neuroscience Resolve Issues about Free Will? ” Adina Roskies knits together traditional and modern philosophical ideas with emerging concepts arising from the neuroscience of decision making. It is an elegant and nuanced synthesis. Roskies feels the neurobiology of decision making offers insight into the machine behind the mind while arguing that mechanism does not undermine mindedness or t...

Research on authoritarianism has provided conflicting findings its relationship with threat. Some studies indicate that in the face of heightened threat individuals stronger authoritarian predispositions express more right-wing and illiberal preferences; others suggest it is at other end continuum, weak dispositions—libertarians—who are most likely to change such attitudes. Extant efforts recon...

Abstract The issue of whether and how we have the control necessary for freedom moral responsibility is central to all accounts responsibility. problem luck libertarians aims show that indeterministic agents are ill‐equipped with required In view this, must either endorse scepticism about possibility free morally responsible agents, or make some form of, possibly revisionary, compatibilism work...

Since its inception, the 2019 coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak has become a major health problem. At same time, countries worldwide have been waiting for Covid-19 vaccine to be sufficiently available. When became available, several began adopt mandatory vaccination policies. However, received strong opposition from start. Rejections emerged various parties, including libertarians. The re...