Fishkin on Nozick's Absolute Rights

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07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies Tibor R. Machan

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In his recent work, Tyranny and Legitimacy, James Fishkin advances an argument against Roben Nozick's theory of, what Fishkin calls, "absolute rights" by trying to demonstrate that such a theory would legitimate tyranny.

Volume 6, Number 3 (1982)

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Machan, Tibor. "Fishkin on Nozick's Absolute Rights." Journal of Libertarian Studies 6, No. 3 (1982): 317–320.

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