That private property and free markets protect and promote both liberty and welfare is the, often implicit, classical-liberal compatibility thesis. This thesis requires explaining and defending in terms of social science and of philosophy. The writings here focus on the philosophy. In particular, the following thesis is explained, defended, and applied: interpersonal liberty-in-practice is private property, but only insofar as that private property is itself derived from the abstract theory of liberty-in-itself as “the absence of initiated interpersonal constraints on preference-satisfaction”. All arguments apply or assume critical rationalist epistemology: we can only conjecture and test, “supporting justifications” are logically impossible. For a concise explanation of this general theory, see here: https://jclester.substack.com/p/eleutheric-conjectural-libertarianism
This website’s logo is a photograph of a statue of Eleutheria, the ancient Greek personification or goddess of freedom or liberty (after which “eleutherology”, as a branch of philosophy, is named: the study or theories of freedom).
