Philosophy of Law – The Origin of Rights

The Fallacy of Ambiguity in the Non-Aggression Principle

By Neil December 14, 2020Epistemology, Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Political Philosophy

The Non-Aggression Principle (NAP) is an effectively axiomatic element of libertarian political philosophy. However, it suffers from a fallacy of ambiguity that results in omitting forms of aggression that are…

The Categories of Well-Being

By Neil December 12, 2020Economics, Moral Philosophy, Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Political Philosophy

THE Categories of Well-Being is a universal hierarchy of intrinsic life values.[1] While each value is higher[2] than the previous, this does not indicate or suggest that the lower intrinsic…

The Teleological Basis of Rights

By Neil December 8, 2020Moral Philosophy, Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Political Philosophy, Praxeology

TELEOLOGY has fallen into general disrepute as a result of materialist and physicalist metaphysical worldviews which mostly gained prominence during the general European enlightenment period reaching its peak in the…

The Critical Importance of Collective Intentionality

By Neil December 4, 2020Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Law, Political Philosophy, Social Ontology

“[…] unless there is some form of collective recognition of property rights, and unless the participants have the concept of a “right” in the first place, the system of private…

The Neurobiological Basis of Rights

By Neil December 3, 2020Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of Mind, Political Philosophy

At a glance: Self-ownership is a neurobiological phenomenon resulting from the nature of man as a conscious biological organism;The neurophysiology of core-consciousness is the basis of self-ownership and is the…

Constitutions and Their Interpretation

By Neil December 2, 2020Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Law, Political Philosophy

IN a previous blog post, the linguistic deontological character of social institutions was discussed based on the work of the philosopher John Searle (2010). This ontological understanding of social institutions…