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Libertarianism - College Papers

Libertarianism

Philippe Parent
Stephen Robinson
345-BNR-23 Ethics Lecture
March 2, 2012

Libertarianism

Libertarianism in its most basic form is claimed to be based on individual rights to self-ownership, or to liberty. In his paper Jonathan Wolff attempts to define and explain the different aspects of libertarianism along with explaining what economic competition is and the positive along with the negative aspects that come along with this competition. By giving different views and explanations on the morality of economic competition Wolff gives a very in depth perspective on the topic at hand. The following paper will look into Wolff's main points on economic competition along with ...

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of view "a society of individuals all struggling to get the upper hand, at whatever cost to each other is a deeply unappealing spectacle" (Wolff, 551 (15)). In other words competition creates this type of society in which everybody will do whatever they can in order to be better than another and gain social class, basically meaning that we are run by social hierarchy. Wolff follows by saying that when speaking of morality the "evils of individual competition are obvious", it basically what creates jealousy, hatred and envy. Basically individual competition makes you the enemy of everybody else and vice versa therefor nobody can gain anything without taking advantage of somebody else's loss or discontent. As a result one can deduce that competition whether it is economic or not is encouraged by society, which is seen by many as being morally wrong because it encourages one to do harm to another. Even when contemplating this fact society accepts, but Wolff asks "why do we permit ...

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