{"id":362,"date":"2008-12-02T07:18:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T15:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=362"},"modified":"2008-12-05T18:07:12","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T02:07:12","slug":"libertarians-the-secular-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/libertarians-the-secular-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Libertarians &#038; the Secular Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Volokh Conspiracy Ilya Somin points to this weblog, and <a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/archives\/archive_2008_11_30-2008_12_06.shtml#1228201339\">notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Although one of the four contributors (Olson) is more libertarian than conservative, the main focus of the blog seems to be on the latter. After all, few doubt that one can be both an atheist and a libertarian. Many of the most influential libertarian thinkers of modern times were atheists or agnostics (e.g. &#8211; Milton Friedman, F.A. Hayek, and Ayn Rand). Although there are also some highly religious libertarian intellectuals, including some of my co-bloggers here at the VC, few if any libertarian theists doubt that an atheist can be just as much a libertarian as they are.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wish I could be a libertarian.  But my current understanding of human nature makes me not much of one.    My own inclination is to err on the side of liberty, but unfortunately I do not believe that the broad license of liberty which most libertarians believe right and proper would be conducive to the flourishing of human society or the contentment of most individuals.* \u00a0I am willing to be convinced otherwise and brought back to the libertarian fold&#8230;. (Also, I consider libertarianism a species of liberalism, only tactically aligned with American conservatism, though temporary alliances stretched out may take on an air of permanence)<\/p>\n<p>* Since most libertarians <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libertyunbound.com\/archive\/2008_06\/poll.html\">today<\/a> derive their position from utilitarianism, the disagreement here is about what <em>is <\/em>more than <em>how <\/em>things should be (i.e., if most libertarians were grounded in Natural Rights it might be the latter).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Volokh Conspiracy Ilya Somin points to this weblog, and notes: Although one of the four contributors (Olson) is more libertarian than conservative, the main focus of the blog seems to be on the latter. After all, few doubt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/libertarians-the-secular-right\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}