Eric Mack
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 445765 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Eric Mack |
| PRENOMES | Eric |
| SOBRENOME | Mack |
| ASSINATURA | MACK E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Tulane University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8080-8146 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Nozick on blackmail
In Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Robert Nozick endorses the prohibition of blackmail even though such a prohibition seems to contravene his overall libertarian commitments. This essay explicates this endorsement of the prohibition of blackmail as an instance of Nozick’s thesis that morally problematic actions that fall short of violating rights may nevertheless be forbidden if they are sufficiently problematic and due compensation is paid to the pa…
Property, Public and Private
Property, public and private refers both to (i) a normative relationship between agents and things, and (ii) the things that stand in that normative relationship to agents. In the paradigm case of property, an individual is related to some physical object by having an exclusive right to use that object as he chooses (i.e., it is the property of that agent to do with as he sees fit). In the paradigm case, the property holder's right of disposition…
Economic Liberty
Economic liberty consists in the freedom of agents to dispose, for economic purposes, of the objects or powers to which they are entitled in any way they choose as long as this disposition does not prevent other agents from enjoying a comparable discretionary control over the objects and powers to which they are entitled. Thus, economic liberty is a major subcategory of liberty understood as the freedom to dispose of one's own as one chooses. As …
Elbow Room for Rights
If individuals possess robust rights over their own persons and legitimately acquired possessions does any action on the part of another person that has any physical effect on the right-holder or her property to which the right-holder has not consented violate those rights? If so, it seems that almost every ordinary exercise of one’s rights—e.g., starting one’s car up in one’s own driveway, emitting some smoke while grilling in one’s own backyard…
The Cambridge Companion to Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974) is recognised as a classic of modern political philosophy. Along with John Rawls's A Theory of Justice (1971), it is widely credited with breathing new life into the discipline in the second half of the twentieth century. This Companion presents a balanced and comprehensive assessment of Nozick's contribution to political philosophy. In engaging and accessible chapters, the contributors analyse No…
Scanlon as natural rights theorist
This article examines the character of Scanlon’s contractualism as presented in What We Owe to Each Other. I offer a range of reasons for thinking of Scanlon’s contractualism as a species of natural rights theorizing. I argue that to affirm the principle that actions are wrongful if and only if they are disallowed by principles that people could not reasonably reject is equivalent to affirming a natural right (of an admittedly non-standard sort) …
Non-Absolute Rights and Libertarian Taxation
Rights-oriented libertarian theory asserts the existence of robust individual rights - including robust rights of property. If these property rights are absolute, then it seems that all taxation is theft. However, it also seems that, if an individual is (faultlessly) in dire straits, it is permissible for him to seize or trespass in order to escape from those straits. It does seem that in this sense property rights are non-absolute. This essay ex…
Classical Liberalism and Libertarianism
Self-ownership, Marxism, and Egalitarianism
Part I of this essay supports the anti-egalitarian conclusion that individuals may readily become entitled to substantially unequal extra-personal holdings by criticizing end-state and pattern theories of distributive justice and defending the historical entitlement doctrine of justice in holdings. Part II of this essay focuses on a second route to the anti-egalitarian conclusion. This route combines the self-ownership thesis with a contention th…
Self-ownership, Marxism, and Egalitarianism
This two-part article offers a defense of a libertarian doctrine that centers on two propositions. The first is the self-ownership thesis according to which each individual possesses original moral rights over her own body, faculties, talents, and energies. The second is the anti-egalitarian conclusion that, through the exercise of these rights of self-ownership, individuals may readily become entitled to substantially unequal extra-personal hold…
In Defense of the Jurisdiction Theory of Rights
Deontic Restrictions Are Not Agent-Relative Restrictions
The primary purpose of this essay is to offer a critique of a particular program within moral and political philosophy. This program can be stated quite succinctly. It is to account for agents' being subject to deontic restrictions on the basis of their possession of agent-relative reasons for acting in accordance with those restrictions. Needless to say, the statement of this program requires some further explication. Specifically, two claims re…
Personal Integrity, Practical Recognition, and Rights
Journal Article Personal Integrity, Practical Recognition, and Rights Get access Eric Mack Eric Mack Tulane University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Monist, Volume 76, Issue 1, 1 January 1993, Pages 101–118, https://doi.org/10.5840/monist199376112 Published: 09 December 2014
Of Transplants and Trolleys
According to Judith Thomson we know there are claim-rights because we know that persons are often under behavioral constraints that cannot be accounted for by-indeed are incompatible with-purely consequentialist ways of thinking. We know that these constraints exist because of our confidence in many cases about asserting the impermissibility of value-maximizing behavior. The exemplar of these cases is
Gauthier on Rights and Economic Rent
David Gauthier's Morals by Agreement is an impressive — indeed, daunting — exercise in contractarian moral and political philosophy. The primary purpose of his treatise is to explicate practical rationality as constrained maximization and morality as compliance with these constraints. Gauthier offers an account of which constraints on straightforward utility maximization each rational individual will be prepared to accept and comply with on the c…
Self-Ownership and the Right of Property
Journal Article Self-Ownership and the Right of Property Get access Eric Mack Eric Mack Tulane University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Monist, Volume 73, Issue 4, 1 October 1990, Pages 519–543, https://doi.org/10.5840/monist19907343 Published: 09 December 2014
In Defense of 'Unbridled' Freedom of Contract
The doctrine of freedom of contract, viz., that each person should have the liberty to enter into and the right to insist on the fulfillment of any rights-respecting contract, is defined and defended as an implication of a Lockean emphasis on natural rights. This natural rights perspective requires the rejection of all collective social goal theories, e.g., utilitarianism, and the rejection of objections to freedom of contract which proceed from …
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In Defense of 'Unbridled' Freedom of Contract
The doctrine of freedom of contract, viz., that each person should have the liberty to enter into and the right to insist on the fulfillment of any rights-respecting contract, is defined and defended as an implication of a Lockean emphasis on natural rights. This natural rights perspective requires the rejection of all collective social goal theories, e.g., utilitarianism, and the rejection of objections to freedom of contract which proceed from …
Self-Ownership and the Right of Property
Journal Article Self-Ownership and the Right of Property Get access Eric Mack Eric Mack Tulane University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Monist, Volume 73, Issue 4, 1 October 1990, Pages 519–543, https://doi.org/10.5840/monist19907343 Published: 09 December 2014
Gauthier on Rights and Economic Rent
David Gauthier's Morals by Agreement is an impressive — indeed, daunting — exercise in contractarian moral and political philosophy. The primary purpose of his treatise is to explicate practical rationality as constrained maximization and morality as compliance with these constraints. Gauthier offers an account of which constraints on straightforward utility maximization each rational individual will be prepared to accept and comply with on the c…
Personal Integrity, Practical Recognition, and Rights
Journal Article Personal Integrity, Practical Recognition, and Rights Get access Eric Mack Eric Mack Tulane University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Monist, Volume 76, Issue 1, 1 January 1993, Pages 101–118, https://doi.org/10.5840/monist199376112 Published: 09 December 2014
Of Transplants and Trolleys
According to Judith Thomson we know there are claim-rights because we know that persons are often under behavioral constraints that cannot be accounted for by-indeed are incompatible with-purely consequentialist ways of thinking. We know that these constraints exist because of our confidence in many cases about asserting the impermissibility of value-maximizing behavior. The exemplar of these cases is
Deontic Restrictions Are Not Agent-Relative Restrictions
The primary purpose of this essay is to offer a critique of a particular program within moral and political philosophy. This program can be stated quite succinctly. It is to account for agents' being subject to deontic restrictions on the basis of their possession of agent-relative reasons for acting in accordance with those restrictions. Needless to say, the statement of this program requires some further explication. Specifically, two claims re…
In Defense of the Jurisdiction Theory of Rights
Self-ownership, Marxism, and Egalitarianism
Part I of this essay supports the anti-egalitarian conclusion that individuals may readily become entitled to substantially unequal extra-personal holdings by criticizing end-state and pattern theories of distributive justice and defending the historical entitlement doctrine of justice in holdings. Part II of this essay focuses on a second route to the anti-egalitarian conclusion. This route combines the self-ownership thesis with a contention th…
Self-ownership, Marxism, and Egalitarianism
This two-part article offers a defense of a libertarian doctrine that centers on two propositions. The first is the self-ownership thesis according to which each individual possesses original moral rights over her own body, faculties, talents, and energies. The second is the anti-egalitarian conclusion that, through the exercise of these rights of self-ownership, individuals may readily become entitled to substantially unequal extra-personal hold…
Classical Liberalism and Libertarianism
Non-Absolute Rights and Libertarian Taxation
Rights-oriented libertarian theory asserts the existence of robust individual rights - including robust rights of property. If these property rights are absolute, then it seems that all taxation is theft. However, it also seems that, if an individual is (faultlessly) in dire straits, it is permissible for him to seize or trespass in order to escape from those straits. It does seem that in this sense property rights are non-absolute. This essay ex…
Scanlon as natural rights theorist
This article examines the character of Scanlon’s contractualism as presented in What We Owe to Each Other. I offer a range of reasons for thinking of Scanlon’s contractualism as a species of natural rights theorizing. I argue that to affirm the principle that actions are wrongful if and only if they are disallowed by principles that people could not reasonably reject is equivalent to affirming a natural right (of an admittedly non-standard sort) …
The Cambridge Companion to Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974) is recognised as a classic of modern political philosophy. Along with John Rawls's A Theory of Justice (1971), it is widely credited with breathing new life into the discipline in the second half of the twentieth century. This Companion presents a balanced and comprehensive assessment of Nozick's contribution to political philosophy. In engaging and accessible chapters, the contributors analyse No…
Property, Public and Private
Property, public and private refers both to (i) a normative relationship between agents and things, and (ii) the things that stand in that normative relationship to agents. In the paradigm case of property, an individual is related to some physical object by having an exclusive right to use that object as he chooses (i.e., it is the property of that agent to do with as he sees fit). In the paradigm case, the property holder's right of disposition…
Economic Liberty
Economic liberty consists in the freedom of agents to dispose, for economic purposes, of the objects or powers to which they are entitled in any way they choose as long as this disposition does not prevent other agents from enjoying a comparable discretionary control over the objects and powers to which they are entitled. Thus, economic liberty is a major subcategory of liberty understood as the freedom to dispose of one's own as one chooses. As …
Elbow Room for Rights
If individuals possess robust rights over their own persons and legitimately acquired possessions does any action on the part of another person that has any physical effect on the right-holder or her property to which the right-holder has not consented violate those rights? If so, it seems that almost every ordinary exercise of one’s rights—e.g., starting one’s car up in one’s own driveway, emitting some smoke while grilling in one’s own backyard…
Nozick on blackmail
In Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Robert Nozick endorses the prohibition of blackmail even though such a prohibition seems to contravene his overall libertarian commitments. This essay explicates this endorsement of the prohibition of blackmail as an instance of Nozick’s thesis that morally problematic actions that fall short of violating rights may nevertheless be forbidden if they are sufficiently problematic and due compensation is paid to the pa…
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