Jan Narveson on Theories of Rights and Moral Contracts
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Channel: Libertarianism.org · 2012 · News & Politics
Jan Narveson is a professor of philosophy emeritus at the University of Waterloo in Ontario and the author of several books including The Libertarian Idea (1988). Here he speaks at the International Society of Individual Liberty's World Libertarian Conference in 2000 about positive and negative rights and a contractarian justification for the morality of liberty. Download an .mp3 version of this lecture here: http://bit.ly/wQOIcA
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