Taking Rights Seriously

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Further reading:

The Law by Frédéric Bastiat (for the French original, see La Loi)

The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude by Étienne de La Boétie (for the French original, see Discours de la Servitude Volontaire)

No Treason. No. VI. The Constitution of No Authority by Lysander Spooner (contained in Let's Abolish Government)


Essays and books by Murray N. Rothbard:


Entries in The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism:


Eric Mack: Selected articles and book chapters


Books by Douglas B. Rasmussen & Douglas J. Den Uyl:


Liberty for the 21st Century: Contemporary Libertarian Thought edited by Tibor R. Machan & Douglas B. Rasmussen

Dialogical Arguments for Libertarian Rights by Stephan Kinsella

A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism by Hans-Hermann Hoppe (esp. Chapters 2 & 7)


Lecture series:

Foundations of Libertarian Ethics by Roderick Long

The History of Political Philosophy: From Plato to Rothbard by David Gordon


Other approaches to justifying libertarianism:

Further Philosophical Roads to Libertarianism by Eric Mack

Arguments for Liberty edited by Aaron Ross Powell & Grant Babcock

More on natural rights:

Persons, Rights, and the Moral Community by Loren E. Lomasky

Individuals and Their Rights by Tibor R. Machan

Ethical intuitionism:

The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey by Michael Huemer

Contractarianism:

The Libertarian Idea by Jan Narveson

Respecting Persons in Theory and Practice: Essays on Moral and Political Philosophy by Jan Narveson

You and The State by Jan Narveson

Rule utilitarianism:

The Foundations of Morality by Henry Hazlitt

Ethics as Social Science: The Moral Philosophy of Social Cooperation by Leland B. Yeager

Pluralism and Indirect Consequentialism:

Elements of Justice by David Schmidtz

Consequentialism:

The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism by David Friedman


Further reading on controversial issues: Abortion and Children’s Rights; Immigration Roundtable; Immigration Symposium