Libertarianism
Self-ownership and a just history of acquisition and transfer ground property rights.
What it claims
Libertarianism gives individuals strong rights over their bodies and capacities. In Nozick’s entitlement theory, a holding is just through just acquisition, just transfer, or rectification of past injustice. A distribution satisfying those conditions need not fit a pattern of equality, need, or merit.
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Key thinkers
Robert Nozick · F. A. Hayek · Murray N. Rothbard · Jan Narveson · Michael Otsuka