期刊名称:Reason Papers : A Journal of Interdisciplinary Normative Studies
印刷版ISSN:0363-1893
出版年度:2011
卷号:33
页码:110-136
出版社:Reason Papers
摘要:Daniel Klein and Michael Clark‘s ―Direct and Overall Liberty‖ is a welcome addition to the libertarian literature.1 These authors force more traditional libertarians2 to rethink their political economic philosophy and to delve more deeply into it than they would have in the absence of this article. Its main contribution is the distinction between what they call direct and overall liberty. Direct liberty is a ―feature‖ or ―facet‖ of a given act itself (p. 46). To put this into my own words, an act has or encompasses direct liberty insofar as, or to the degree that, it conforms to the Non-Aggression Principle (NAP),