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标题：Libertarianism vs. Objectivism: A Response to Peter Schwartz
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作者：Walter Block
期刊名称：Reason Papers : A Journal of Interdisciplinary Normative Studies
印刷版ISSN：0363-1893
出版年度：2003
卷号：26
页码：39-62
出版社：Reason Papers
摘要：For many years, Rand and the Randians would not mention libertarianism in print. To do so would be to give sanction to what they regarded as a mischievous and misbegotten political philosophy. Happily, this profoundly and intellectually source ended with the publication of Schwartz (1986). This was a no holds barred attack on several libertarian thinkers, including myself. It is a pleasure defending the philosophy of libertarianism in the present reply. Schwartz's article is a vicious attack on libertarianism. When I first read it I cringed, not because of the ideas, which are not really that challenging, but because it is so nasty as to be almost unprecedented in what passes for scholarly writing. Rand (1964, 1967) criticized authors such as David Hume and Immanuel Kant as "whim-worshippers," "muscle-mystics," "Huns," and "Attillas," and Schwartz is an apt student of hers in this regard. Such verbiage is hardly welcome in rational discourse