The Myth of Natural Rights and Other Essays

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No, it won t stop bullets. It won t keep people from ripping off your prop-
erty. It wont even stop the government from putting you in a concentration
camp, or executing you. About the only thing a "natural right" will stop is
enlightened thinking on the ethics of liberty. Once youve read The Myth of
Natural Rights and Other Essays, you'll be able to put those imaginary
protectors of freedom back in the museums where they belong.
Libertarian scholars have had a difficult time being taken seriously in
intellectual circles. There's a good reason for this. While they have gained
recognition and acclaim for their staunch defense of the free market,
compelling advocacy of civil liberties and devastating condemnation of
interventionism, their stubborn reliance on the ancient myth of natural
rights leaves them in philosophical disrepute. The doctrine of natural rights
has persisted among libertarians, because there has never been a systematic
and thorough critique of all it... Tovább

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No, it won t stop bullets. It won t keep people from ripping off your prop-
erty. It wont even stop the government from putting you in a concentration
camp, or executing you. About the only thing a "natural right" will stop is
enlightened thinking on the ethics of liberty. Once youve read The Myth of
Natural Rights and Other Essays, you'll be able to put those imaginary
protectors of freedom back in the museums where they belong.
Libertarian scholars have had a difficult time being taken seriously in
intellectual circles. There's a good reason for this. While they have gained
recognition and acclaim for their staunch defense of the free market,
compelling advocacy of civil liberties and devastating condemnation of
interventionism, their stubborn reliance on the ancient myth of natural
rights leaves them in philosophical disrepute. The doctrine of natural rights
has persisted among libertarians, because there has never been a systematic
and thorough critique of all it implies. Until now.
In one compact work, L.A. Rollins shatters the myth of natural rights, while
exposing the "bleeding-heart libertarians" that promote it. With careful
research and ample documentation, he shows that
thinkers like Ayn Rand, Murray Rothbard, Tibor
Machan and Samuel Konkin not only violate
reason and logic in their defense of natural
rights, but also violate the standards they set
for themselves.
Back in print for the first time in years, thisj
newly revised edition features an insightful
introduction by the Stirnerite-libertarian
upstart,TGGP, along with a new afterword by the
author. Bonus material includes an updated selection
of sardonic^« de mots from the underground classic,
Lucifer's Lexicon, as well as Rollins' never-before-
published writings on poetic insurrection, the
Holy Quran and Holocaust revisionism. Vissza