Freedom, self-ownership, and equality in Steiner’s left-libertarianism

Ronen Shnayderman

Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 2013, vol. 12, issue 3, 219-227

Abstract: Hillel Steiner’s left-libertarian theory of justice is the most serious recent attempt to reconcile the ideals of (luck-egalitarian) equality and freedom. This attempt consists in an argument that a universal right to equal freedom, which in Steiner’s view means also a universal right to maximal freedom, implies a universal right to self-ownership and to an egalitarian share of the world’s natural resources. In this article, I argue that this argument fails on Steiner’s own terms. I argue that, on Steiner’s conceptions of freedom, self-ownership, and an egalitarian share of the world’s natural resources, insofar as the right to equal freedom implies the right to self-ownership and to an egalitarian share of the world’s natural resources, it is incompatible with (luck-egalitarian) equality.

Keywords: Hillel Steiner; left-libertarianism; freedom; luck-egalitarian equality; self-ownership (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1177/1470594X12460638

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