What Can Libertarians Learn from Aristotle?

Dr. Douglas Rasmussen outlines his libertarian beliefs, highlighting the importance influence of Aristotelian philosophy.

Douglas Rasmussen

Douglas Rasmussen is a professor of philosophy at St. John’s University and co-​author (along with Douglas J. Den Uyl) of several books on ethics and political philosophy including Liberty and Nature: An Aristotelian Defense of Liberal Order (1991), Liberalism Defended: The Challenge of Post-​Modernity (1997), and Norms of Liberty: A Perfectionist Basis for Non-​Perfectionist Politics (2005).

Douglas Rasmussen, a professor of philosophy at St. John’s University, gives his own definition of libertarianism and explains the Neo-​Aristotelian basis for his classical liberal beliefs.

Video produced by Caleb Brown, Evan Banks, and Austin Bragg.