Becoming a Political Kantian
This morning I've decided to take a break from contemplating the fact that my country is seriously considering giving the nuclear codes to a narcissistic, incompetent, hateful, con artist orangutang to contemplate politics in a more theoretical fashion, without reference to the present election. I've always had strongly deontological moral intuitions—that is, I find it most natural to think of ethics as primarily involving rules we have to follow rather than outcomes we have to promote. Further, before I started studying philosophy, I had broadly libertarian political views. It's not surprising, then, that when I first encountered Nozick's Kantian defense...
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Civil Rights
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Contemporary Thinkers
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Historical Thinkers
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Immanuel Kant
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John Locke
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Libertarianism
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Philosophy
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Political Philosophy
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Private Property
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Robert Nozick
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The State of Nature
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