Arguments for Liberty: Utilitarianism

Free Thoughts

Aug 25, 2017•46 min

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Episode description

Christopher Freiman joins us to talk about his Arguments for Liberty chapter on utilitarianism. What’s the utilitarian argument for libertarianism?

What is utilitarianism? How does utilitarianism interact with rights-based approaches to morality? What are the rhetorical virtues of utilitarianism?

Show Notes and Further Reading

You can read Freiman’s Arguments for Liberty chapter in full here: “A Utilitarian Case for Libertarianism”

Arguments for Liberty is available here as a free .pdf and in Kindle and e-Book formats. It’s also available in paperback on Amazon.

Here are a few other selections from Libertarianism.org on utilitarianism.

Other Free Thoughts episodes on Arguments for Liberty:

Rawlsianism with Kevin Vallier Kantianism with Jason Brennan

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