The Moral Libertarian Perspective
The Moral Libertarian Perspective
This book incorporates the best content from The Moral Libertarian Horizon book series
The Moral Libertarian Horizon book series (published 2018-2021) examined the moral libertarian ideal in depth, and examines its application over a range of topics such as free speech, freedom of conscience, the free market of ideas, the question of private property, and social justice. Moral libertarian cases against social engineering, victim mentality, identity politics and political correctness are also presented.
In writing these books, my mission was to give liberal* ideals as much life force as possible. Such life force can only come with idealism, moral conviction and clear principles. We believe that the one core liberal* idea is the Equality of Moral Agency (EMA), i.e. each and every individual should have equal ability to live and act out their sincerely held vision of morality, and no outside force, should be able to diminish any part of this.”
In particular, all my political and social commentary assumes the context of a Western liberal democratic system. In such a system, if voters receive biased information due to interference with free speech, they could get their decision totally wrong. If they elect a culturally authoritarian government that, for example, treats people differently based on identity or opinion, this would have severe moral consequences. It is this situation that Moral Libertarianism was specifically developed to guard against.
The Moral Libertarian Perspective book incorporates the best content from The Moral Libertarian Horizon Volumes 1, 2, 4 and 5, and is intended to provide a more complete picture on the Moral Libertarian philosophy.
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For a shorter read, you can get The Moral Libertarian Idea instead. This book is an updated, trimmed and combined version of the MLH Series Volume 1–2, outlining and discussing the basic ideas and principles of Moral Libertarianism.
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*Liberalism in the classical Enlightenment sense, rather than leftist in the American sense.