Аннотации:
G. E. Morton tries to defend libertarianism against my claim that it
relies on an implausible secularization of ideas of divine sovereignty. But it is not
true, as he claims, that morality itself entails human sovereignty: witness the moral
theories of divine-command theorists and philosophical consequentialists. Nor is it
true that sovereignty can be conceptually transferred from God to equal human
individuals, since they would have no legitimate way to legislate over each other,
short of a unanimous “general will.” Nor, finally, does the idea of first possession
rescue private property rights, since it is as applicable to animals and children as to
adult human beings.