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Human Rights, Virtue Ethics, and Tyranny

June 14, 2019June 13, 2019 / Thomas Harper / 2 Comments

If there are no human rights a priori of government force, how can tyranny be avoided? In the absence of any deontological justification for normative ethics, there is only virtue ethics.

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