Religious Liberty in «Natural Law and Natural Rights»

The Natural Rights of Children

What does libertarian theory, Murray Rothbard’s theory in particular, tell us about the rights of children? The two foundational principles of Rothbardian libertarianism are the sanctity of private property and the rule of non-aggression. Persons, including children, are “self-owners”. Yet children, at a young age, are not yet capable of functioning fully as “self-owners.” They must be cared fo...

The Role of Economic Rights and the Law in Social Economics : a Classic Natural Law Perspective

ASE sessions at the 2014 ASSA Philadelphia, January 3-5, 2014 ! The Role of Economic Rights and the Law in Social Economics: a Classic Natural Law Perspective !! Stefano Solari Università di Padova, Departement of Economics & Management [email protected] http://www.giuri.unipd.it/~solari/ ! !!! first draft !!!!! Abstract The paper presents a legal approach to social economics, that is to ...

Euthanasia and natural law.

Law, liberty, and Christian morality

There is a long liberal political tradition of marshalling arguments aimed at convincing Christians that distinctively Christian reasons for issuing coercive laws are not sufficient to justify those laws. In the first part of this paper I argue that the two most popular of these arguments, attributable to Locke, will not reliably convince committed biblical Christians, nor, probably, should the...

After Cologne: male circumcision and the law. Parental right, religious liberty or criminal assault?

Non-therapeutic circumcision violates boys' right to bodily integrity as well as to self-determination. There is neither any verifiable medical advantage connected with the intervention nor is it painless nor without significant risks. Possible negative consequences for the psychosexual development of circumcised boys (due to substantial loss of highly erogenous tissue) have not yet been suffic...