OpenCongress - 112th Congress - Track bills, votes, senators, and representatives in the U.S. Congress. Libertarianism and Objectivism. Philosophical disagreements[edit] Aggression[edit] Some libertarians, including Murray Rothbard and Walter Block, hold the view that the non-aggression principle is an irreducible concept: it is not the logical result of any given ethical philosophy but, rather, is self-evident as any other axiom is.
Rand, too, argued that liberty was a precondition of virtuous conduct,[3] but argued that her non-aggression principle itself derived from a complex set of previous knowledge and values. For this reason, Objectivists refer to the non-aggression principle as such, while libertarians who agree with Rothbard's argument call it "the non-aggression axiom.
" Objectivism's rejection of the "primitive"[edit]
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Research Our Records Home > Research Our Records Search Online Research in Person. American revolution. Government. Government of any kind currently affects every human activity in many important ways.
For this reason, political scientists generally argue that government should not be studied by itself; but should be studied along with anthropology, economics, history, philosophy, science, and sociology. Political science Etymology From Middle English government,[citation needed] from Old French government[citation needed] (French gouvernement), from Latin gubernatio ("management, government").