Lysander Spooner: Nineteenth-century America's last natural rights theorist
Social Philosophy and Policy 29 (2):139-176 (2012)
| Abstract | The main purpose of this essay is to articulate the ideas of the last powerful advocate of natural rights in nineteenth-century America. That last powerful advocate was the Massachusetts-born radical libertarian Lysander Spooner (1808-1887). Besides his powerful antebellum attacks on slavery, Spooner developed forceful arguments on behalf of a strongly individualistic conception of natural law and private property rights and against coercive moralism, coercive paternalism, and state authority and legislation. This essay focuses on the theoretical core of Spoonera doctrine that is primarily developed in Spoonerss thought and support this contention in part by showing how much more Lockean Spooner was than either Hodgskin or the early Spencer | |||||||||
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