Concept information
Preferred term
libertarianism
Definition
- Libertarianism may be defined as a political philosophy that has as its core two theories, one pertaining to how property titles justly originate and the other addressing the proper way in which people may deal with one another given those ownership rights. In a nutshell, the libertarian claims that the origin of property rights resides in homesteading, and that a proper legal system would be based on the nonaggression axiom: People may legitimately act in any way they wish, with the sole exception that they cannot initiate force or violence, or the threat thereof, against those who are themselves innocent of such transgressions. [Source: Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World; Libertarianism]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- anarcho-capitalism
- assurance and trust
- Austrian theory of banking
- Cato's Letters
- charity/friendly societies
- classical economics
- classical liberalism
- conservative critique of libertarianism
- decentralism
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
- Dutch Republic
- English Civil Wars
- epicureanism
- federalists versus anti-federalists
- fusionism
- German liberalism
- Glorious Revolution
- individualist anarchism
- individual rights
- Italian fiscal theorists
- key people in libertarianism
- Law Merchant
- left libertarianism
- liberal critique of libertarianism
- libertarianism and policy
- liberty in the ancient world
- limited government
- material progress
- methodological individualism
- minimal state
- Mont Pèlerin Society
- natural harmony of interests
- nonaggression axiom
- objectivism
- peace and pacifism
- philosophic radicals
- political and ethical individualism
- positive liberty
- presumption of liberty
- pursuit of happiness
- right of revolution
- scholastics/school of salamanca
- secessionism
- socialist calculation debate
- sociology and libertarianism
- stoicism
- theories of rights
- Whiggism
- world slavery
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/libertarianism
{{label}}
{{#each values }} {{! loop through ConceptPropertyValue objects }}
{{#if prefLabel }}
{{/if}}
{{/each}}
{{#if notation }}{{ notation }} {{/if}}{{ prefLabel }}
{{#ifDifferentLabelLang lang }} ({{ lang }}){{/ifDifferentLabelLang}}
{{#if vocabName }}
{{ vocabName }}
{{/if}}