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Originally Posted by roachboy
what exactly is individual sovereignty?
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it's what libertarians call self-ownership.
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it appears to mean that each individual--whatever that category means (typically, it is not a category that signifies past a naive level, except as way of referring to the "i" which is the organizing center of perceptual experience)---is itself a state?
i assume then that popular sovereignty would be a problem because it involves a collective?
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yes.
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how do you have private property without a legal system that defines it?
how do you have a legal system if you only recognize individuals?
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It depends on the mode of libertarianism. some believe in a small and limited government while others believe that all of government's functions can be provided by the marketplace.
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libertarians believe in john locke's theory of ownership?
but you understand that locke's state of nature is a fiction, yes?
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wasn't that hobbes? and lots of libertarians see locke as an influence on their beliefs.