Sheldon Richman on Non-Aggression, Natural Rights, and Human Flourishing

What do libertarians mean by
“non-aggression principle” (or axiom, or maxim, or principle) and
how do we arrive at it? Sheldon Richman looks back on economist
Murray Rothbard’s comprehensive popular presentation For a
New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto. Rothbard claimed that
natural rights are the basis for non-aggression and “in one form or
another, has been adopted by most of the libertarians, past and
present.” This is key to the ultimate good—human flourishing— which
is, so to speak, baked into the very enterprise of doing ethical
and political theory, and indeed of all action.

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