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• Locke and InsideCatholic

  In Donald Goodman III, History / By Donald P. Goodman III / 22 November 2010 / 3 comments

  

  For Leo, men don’t form the state because they want to protect their property; they form the state because his “natural instinct moves him to live in civil society, for he cannot, if dwelling apart, provide himself with the necessary requirements of life, nor procure the means of developing his mental and moral faculties.”

   

• Individualism and the State: Part I

  In Donald Goodman III, Philosophy / By Donald P. Goodman III / 23 July 2010 / 6 comments

  

  If Locke is representative of “soft-core” individualism, which holds merely that government is purely voluntary and is limited solely to protecting individuals’ property rights, Rothbard is representative of “hard-core” individualism, which holds that the state has no legitimate role whatsoever.