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	No Treason - Disputing Narveson - Round 2, by John T. Kennedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It had not occurred to me that Narveson was considering a robber or thief to be a defaulter in the context of a public good, but after reading the article that Callahan had pointed out it was clear to me that he was.
		Narveson was kind enough to reply again; he said that he didn't see any difference between his characterization of a public good and mine.
		Narveson said to me that the victim of violence is unable to control the benefit of nonviolence, which is within the control of the aggressor.
	www.no-treason.com /Kennedy/8.php (540 words)

	West Coast Libertarian
		Narveson, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo and author of The Libertarian Idea, brought his contractarian message to GVLA members at the March 9th Supper Club in Richmond, BC.
		Narveson also made it clear that the contractarian view should not be confused with utilitarian view, which effectively argues that actions are right if they promote the maximum net general utility.
		Narveson concludes that each individual will agree to the non-aggression axiom because it would serve to protect his own property and liberty from others while at the same time constraining him as little as possible from pursing his own life projects and desires.
	www.spinnaker.com /WCLF/wcl/16-3-sup.html (1052 words)

	Laissez Faire Books
		Narveson's discussions of the definition of liberty, the issues of negative versus positive liberty/rights/obligations, coercion versus pressuring, and interference versus nonassistance are all dealt with better than anywhere else.
		While Narveson is not uncritical of Nozick, he is nonetheless largely a Nozick partisan, and takes a good deal of space throughout this work to respond to Nozick's formidable critics, reformulating or refining doctrines when necessary to answer objections.
		Narveson fences with the opponents of libertarianism like a veritable Errol Flynn, and it is a pleasure to watch him dispatch the collectivists' arguments one by one.
	laissezfairebooks.com /index.php?deptid=&parentid=&stocknumber=LI8572&page=1&itemsperpage=24 (948 words)

	The Libertarian Idea - Narveson
		Narveson's "counter-example" is little more than a verbal trick, suggesting that one might have unattractive nonalternatives as well as the attractive alternatives; but it's the range of overall outcomes, among which one can choose, that's the relevant measure of liberty here.
		Narveson here falls into the same bad habit, characterising libertarianism as the view that everyone has "an equal right to liberty", even though he seems well aware of the meaninglessness of that phrase, using it as a way of improperly sneaking in yet another bit of nonsense in the way of allegedly universal fundamental rights.
		Narveson claims that for "social morality" a moral rule must be "general" in the sense that it applies to everyone in society, and also in the sense that it is about the sort of things that almost anyone can do.
	www.libertarianunderground.com /Forum/index.php?board=13;action=display;threadid=756 (9052 words)

	Jan Narveson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jan Narveson argues that God as a hypothesis is not an explanation for anything.
		The traditional ontological, cosmological, and design arguments all fail, according to Narveson.
		And religion is not necessary to provide a foundation for morals.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/jan_narveson/index.shtml (37 words)

	A Critique of Narveson's The Libertarian Idea
		Narveson argues that contractarianism must be envisaged as a voluntary undertaking, free of coercion, and libertarianism as maximising individual liberty through self-ownership (I would contend that the former is to all intents and purposes unachievable, and the latter both unnecessary and incoherent, since it denies the liberty of self-alienation).
		Narveson claims that a state is a public with a government, and that a government is a smallish subset of the public that has acquired the power to rule.
		Narveson now proceeds to the question of law, objecting to the standard view that it should apply to everyone within a given geographical area, on the spurious grounds that there is no coherent principle for drawing the boundaries of nation states.
	www.paulbirch.net /CritiqueOfNarveson.html (19364 words)

	Imprint: July 12, 2002
		Jan Narveson, a locally and nationally recognized philosophy professor, said upon news of his honour, "I was very surprised." He also disclosed that his wife had received a phone call earlier in the year and his work at the university and in the community was discussed.
		Jan Narveson, UW philosophy professor, believes his contributions to music are more responsible for his honour than his work in business ethics.
		Narveson also writes a weekly music criticism column for the UW Gazette, and regularly hosts a commentary on a chamber music radio program.
	imprint.uwaterloo.ca /story.php?story=1829 (323 words)

	THE DAILY APOLOGY: belated book review -- Narveson's _Respecting Persons in Theory and Practice_
		Narveson focuses on the Prisoner's Dilemma, which is a game-theoretic abstraction of the Ricardian Law of Association and other cooperation-dependent social phenomena.
		Narveson’s contractarianism has done well, in this author’s estimation, in being able to explain important questions such as why an individual often regards the norms of justice to be more important than (to the point even of transcendence over) his subjective preferences.
		Narveson also gives much weight to the “General Principle of Liberty” and claims that libertarianism is “the doctrine that the only relevant consideration in political matters is individual liberty”.
	www.dailyapology.com /2005/06/belated-book-review-narvesons.html (3229 words)

	Advocates for Self-Government - Libertarian Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In an interview in Cogito (July 1998), Narveson said the inevitable tendency of any government to amass power is one of the reasons he is a libertarian.
		A native of Minnesota, Narveson is a professor of philosophy at the University of Waterloo, Canada, where he teaches Introduction to Social and Political Philosophy, Business and Professional Ethics, Moral Issues, History of Ethical Theory, Contemporary Ethical Theory, and seminars on moral and political subjects.
		Narveson is the author of Morality and Utility (1967), Moral Matters (1993), Political Correctness - For and Against (with Marilyn Friedman, 1995), and Respecting Persons in Theory and Practice (2002).
	www.self-gov.org /celebrities/jan-narveson.html (583 words)

	Libertarian Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Narveson also probes the negative / positive rights distinction and takes on the task of defining "liberty." This section is, of necessity, somewhat technical and nit-picky.
		Narveson uses the rigorous work of Gauthier and a smattering of game theory to explain and clarify contractarianism and defend it against counterarguments.
		Narvesons book on the moral foundations of libertarianism is needed because freedom has been to highly connected to utilitarian philosophy, a connection that viewed in isolation I think is bad for the libertarian cause.
	www.e-book-store.com /Politics_Government/Libertarian/Libertarian_2.html (1758 words)

	Jan Narveson - A Critique of Pacifism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Narveson claims that to hold the pacifist position one must hold that nobody has a right to fight back when attacked.
		Narveson claims that if you have a right to something that this right gives you the right to anything else that might be necessary to prevent the deprivation of that right.
		Think of a philosopher that we've read who would disagree with this and then give an example of a right that we (presumably) have that does not entitle us to just anything that might be necessary to prevent the deprivation of that right.
	www.ocf.berkeley.edu /~brianwc/courses/reading/narveson.html (282 words)

	Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Society
		Organization founded in 1974 by Jan Narveson (a philosophy professor at the University of Waterloo).
		The KWCMS Music Room (in Narveson's home) was inaugurated in 1980 with a concert featuring Ofra Harnoy.
		In 1988, as a tribute to Jan Narveson, the KWCMS held a gala concert in the Wilfrid Laurier Theatre Auditorium featuring Moshe Hammer, James Campbell, Anton Kuerti, Kristine Bogyo and the Orford String Quartet.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=U0001853 (412 words)

	UW Philosophy Faculty
		Jan Narveson being made an Officer of the Order of Canada by the Governor-General Adrian Clarkson.
		Jan Narveson received the Ph.D. from Harvard in 1961.
		In June 1990, Dr. Narveson was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada. In 2003, he was inducted as an Officer of the Order of Canada.
	philosophy.uwaterloo.ca /faculty/narveson.html (160 words)

	West Coast Libertarian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Narveson was known as Canada's foremost utilitarian until he ran into the work of philosopher David Gauthier (see his Morals by Agreement (Oxford, 1986)).
		What Narveson has added to Gauthier is that the political idea that best fits with contractarianism is libertarianism and also that contractarianism provides the best foundation for libertarian political beliefs.
		Professor Narveson was born in Minnesota, educated at Chicago and Harvard and came to the University of Waterloo in 1963.
	www.spinnaker.com /WCLF/wcl/16-2-nar.html (314 words)

	Jan Narveson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A libertarian and contractarian, Narveson's form of right-libertarianism is deeply influenced by that of Robert Nozick and David Gauthier.
		Narveson studied at the University of Chicago where he obtained a B.A. in Political Science and in Philosophy, then spent a year at Oxford University (1959-60) on a travelling Fellowship before earning a PhD at Harvard University in 1961.
		A review of Narveson's The Libertarian Idea and Respecting Persons in Theory and Practice
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jan_Narveson (191 words)

	WEI: Vortrag von Prof. Jan Narveson
		Jan Narveson darüber berichten, was der Libertarianismus aus einer Sicht ist, wie er sich von konkurrierenden Formen der politischen Philosophie abgrenzen lässt, wie er moralphilosophisch begründet werden kann und welche rechtlichen, sozialen und ökonomischen Konsequenzen sich aus ihm ergeben.
		Jan Narveson ist Professor für Philosophie an der University of Waterloo in Kanada.
		Narveson, der seine akademische Ausbildung an den Universitäten von Chicago, Harvard und Oxford erhielt, ist Mitglied der International Society for Individual Liberty, der Royal Society of Canada und der Order of Canada.
	www.eucken.de /veranstaltungen/narvesonApril2003.htm (188 words)

	Why Freedom?: Events: The Independent Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As Narveson puts the point, “Those who insist on being unreasonable aren’t being metaphysical drop-outs; they are simply being sociopaths, and social contract theory explains very succinctly how to deal with such people: no contract, nothing is disallowed, and you do whatever you think necessary, period.
		As Narveson puts the point, the answer is easy: “There are people out there, apparently, who don’t agree with the Greeks about how to live—or anyway, don’t seem to.Aristotle is telling us how to be happy, and if he’s right and we genuinely disagree, then we shall be unhappy.
		Jan Narveson is professor of philosophy at the University of Waterloo in Canada.
	www.independent.org /events/transcript.asp?eventID=44 (9101 words)

	Jan Narveson
		Jan Narveson (1936, Erskine, Minnesota, USA) is professor of philosophy at the University of Waterloo in Canada.
		He has published several hundred articles and reviews in many journals, mostly philosophical, mostly about ethics and politics, and several books, notably 'The Libertarian Idea' (1988, recently re-published in Canada by Broadview Press), 'Moral Matters' (Broadview Press, 1993 and 1999), and a new book, 'Respecting Persons in Theory and Practice' (Rowman and Littlefield - 2002).
		In addition to his philosophical work, Jan has had a long-time interest in classical music, and was the founder and continues to be president of the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Society, which puts on over fifty chamber music concerts in his own home in Waterloo.
	www.againstpolitics.com /jan_narveson/index.html (116 words)

	Libertarian Philosophy Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Narveson's book is one of the overlooked treasures of the libertarian canon.
		Narveson utilizes game theory and value subjectivism to breath new life into the social contract.
		The one major flaw in the book is Narveson's section on health care in which Narveson seems to claim that it is possible to defend a national health care system with the confines of libertarian moral theory.
	www.mega.nu:8080 /revolution/philosophy/books (888 words)

	Jan Narveson - Libertarianism: A Philosophical Introduction
		[Narveson, 2000] Liberalism has it that political institutions should cater to people's wants, as they are, rather than some version of the good other than what people actually have.
		[Rawls, 150-161;but see also Narveson 1976] True contractarianism starts with people as they are, and asks them to consider whether their situations cannot be improved by adopting certain general constraints on their conduct.
		Its answer is resoundingly in the affirmative: in the absence of moral constraint, we can expect no end of evils at the hands of our fellows, and life will be worse for all.
	www.againstpolitics.com /libertarianism (11366 words)

	Hettinger
		Professor Narveson is mistaken if he believes that it is inconsistent to hold that animals have moral status and to continue to eat them.
		Professor Narveson has a view of human rights such that most of what human democracies actually do violates peoples' rights, and this presumably includes legislating requirements that landowners act in a way that respects the land and the common good it constitutes.
		Professor Narveson rejects the view that the earth is owned in common, arguing instead that it is, in the first instance, unowned.
	www.biotech.iastate.edu /bioethics_outreach/forum/hettingerreply.html (1093 words)

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		Professor Jan Narveson Department of Philosophy University of Waterloo; Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1 (519) 888-4567-2780; or 885-1211, ext.
	www.searchedfor.com /sf/jan.html (167 words)

	Libertarian Idea (Jan Narveson )
		Jan Narveson's "Libertarian Idea," is the best book on libertarianism ever written.
		Put simply, Narveson asks, what kind of ethical rules would we invent to keep from killing ourselves in an amoral state of nature?
		Since we all have different goals and desires, the only way for us all to live in peace -- and have the best chance at obtaining our individual visions of happiness -- is to adopt the most pluralistic rules possible.
	www.tp-book.de /11019-11041-free_will_determinism/info-1551114216/Libertarian_Idea.html (118 words)

	Jan Narveson -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A libertarian and contractarian, Narveson's form of right- (An ideological belief in freedom of thought and speech) libertarianism is deeply influenced by that of (Click link for more info and facts about Robert Nozick) Robert Nozick and (Click link for more info and facts about David Gauthier) David Gauthier.
		Narveson studied at the (A university in Chicago, Illinois) University of Chicago where he obtained a B.A. in Political Science and in Philosophy, then spent a year at (A university in England) Oxford University (1959-60) on a travelling Fellowship before earning a PhD at (A university in Massachusetts) Harvard University in 1961.
		In 2003 he was awarded the (Click link for more info and facts about Order of Canada) Order of Canada.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/jan_narveson.htm (199 words)

	Jan Narveson: The Libertarian Idea
		In his analysis of the philosophy of libertarianism, Jan Narveson distinguishes it from conservatism, with which it is often confounded, and asks if the libertarian position is really as extreme as is generally thought.
		In his discussion of the essentials of libertarian theory, Narveson weighs major arguments that have been advanced for and against it and considers the difficulties encountered in applying the principle to real-life situations and in the formulation of public policy.
		Jan Narverson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.
	www.temple.edu /tempress/titles/495_reg.html (1124 words)

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