(2004-07-22) Feser Multiple Libertarianisms

Edward Feser (author of On Nozick about Robert Nozick) on multiple strains of Libertarian-isms, some based on Natural Law, others not (Game Rule, etc.). Indeed, though he was personally an Agnostic, F A Hayek held that the value of religion for shoring up the Moral presuppositions of a free society cannot be overestimated... The trouble is, Nozick is also notoriously unclear about where natural rights, and in particular the right of Self Ownership (Sovereignty), come from. But surely what we take to be the source of rights cannot fail to imply, as it does in John Locke, a specific moral view of the world. So if Nozick's position seems to allow for neutrality between all worldviews, this is arguably precisely because he is so vague about the grounds of Natural Right-s.