Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.

It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.

Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.

It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.

Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.

Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.

If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?