Send him mail. “The Self Owner” is an original weekly column appearing every Wednesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Spencer W. Morgan. Spencer is a husband and father, and has studied History and Philosophy at the University of Utah. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. In today’s column, I’d like to examine…
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Material Property as an Extension of Self-Ownership
Send him mail. “The Self Owner” is an original weekly column appearing every Wednesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Spencer W. Morgan. Spencer is a husband and father, and has studied History and Philosophy at the University of Utah. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. So far we’ve defined liberty as a…
Rights as an Entitlement to Self-Owning Action
Send him mail. “The Self Owner” is an original weekly column appearing every Wednesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Spencer W. Morgan. Spencer is a husband and father, and has studied History and Philosophy at the University of Utah. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. Last week we examined in detail the…
Rights in Context
Send him mail. “The Self Owner” is an original weekly column appearing every Wednesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Spencer W. Morgan. Spencer is a husband and father, and has studied History and Philosophy at the University of Utah. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. In last week’s column, I wrote about…
Liberty as the Application of Self-Ownership
Send him mail. “The Self Owner” is an original weekly column appearing every Tuesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Spencer W. Morgan. Spencer is a husband and father, and has studied History and Philosophy at the University of Utah. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. Last week we discovered that defining liberty…
What is Liberty?
Send him mail. “The Self Owner” is an original weekly column appearing every Wednesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Spencer W. Morgan. Spencer is a husband and father, and has studied History and Philosophy at the University of Utah. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. Last week we addressed some of the…
The Foundation of a Philosophical Conversation
Send him mail. “The Self Owner” is an original weekly column appearing every Wednesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Spencer W. Morgan. Spencer is a husband and father, and has studied History and Philosophy at the University of Utah. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. Liberty is something that everyone claims to…
How Do We Accomplish Liberty?
Guest post by Spencer Morgan. What is the “Plan” for Accomplishing Liberty? How Do We Get it Done? This question, posed often by those both sympathetic and hostile to full human liberty and it’s implications, is one that sadly reveals to a great degree the success of our societal pro-government conditioning. Even after the realization…
Where Do Rights Come From?
Your rights don’t come from wrtings. Guest post by Spencer Morgan. One of the recurring confusions that I encounter in discussions about liberty is the idea of rights. There is probably not a single philosophical issue around which more confusion gestates, both among advocates of individual rights and their opponents. So where do our rights…
How Can Free Markets Guarantee Freedom?
Guest post by Spencer Morgan. How Can Free Markets Guarantee Freedom in the Absence of a Strong Central Power? Freedom can’t guarantee anything. It’s not a top-down system or a mechanism that we can evaluate by a comparison to the various models of centralized control. By definition, it is the absence of that control. The…