Episode 45 - Libertarianism vs. Natural Law on Private Property
The Catholic Culture Podcast · Thomas V. Mirus, Edward Feser
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Show Notes
Thomas discusses his libertarian past, explains why he abandoned that political philosophy, and summarizes an article on the topic by the Catholic philosopher Edward Feser. Feser, himself an ex-libertarian who has written books on Hayek, Nozick and Locke, argues that the libertarian view of self-ownership and private property rights cannot be reconciled with classical natural law theory, and lays out a proper natural law theory of private property rights and taxation.
Links
Feser's collected writings on why he stopped being a libertarian http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-road-from-libertarianism.html
Feser on Hayek https://www.claremont.org/crb/article/hayeks-tragic-capitalism/
Episode 7: Inflation Is a Sin—Guido Hülsmann https://www.catholicculture.org/podcast/index.cfm?id=7
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