Narveson Free Supremacist Ideological Study

This thesis serves as an effort to summarize and analyze libertarianism, a school of thought formally established by Jan Narveson, whose interpretation of freedom as well as the exploration of individual rights and the right of property in oneself further demonstrates the paramount importance of freedom. Opposed to resorting his idea to intuition, he tries, for the first time of history, to combine libertarianism with contractarianism by adopting Gauthier's contractualism. In the new framework, the maximization of individual freedom and interests can be secured by establishing interpersonal contracts. In another word, such contracts serve no longer as the shackles of freedom, but rather, as a bond of interpersonal cooperation. Men are not selfish beings, but rather, rational individuals who choose to cooperate with each other. Born naturally out of this process is the integrity of each person. In this way, freedom and interests, freedom and cooperation, cooperation and integrity find their peaceful co-existence in Narveson's libertarianism.The fundamental defects of Narveson's theory, though, include his opposition to the redistribution of individual property by the government, his suspicious attitude towards the government's function in distributing social wealth and his neglect of the existence of the disadvantaged social groups.