Authors: Cindy Holder in Portmore, D.W., ed.

Year: 2017

Cambridge University Press, Ethics 127:3 (April 2017), pp. 788-792

Lomasky and Tesón’s arguments regarding specific legal regimes, governance
structures, and forms of assistance suffer from familiar weaknesses of libertarian
views, such as a naive view of property, selective reading of empirical data,
oversimplification of political and economic histories, and failure to acknowledge
that human freedom is exercised collectively as well as individually. But
their case for a rights-based approach focused on individual human beings is
compelling and a welcome alternative to the distributive paradigm.

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