[Revised entry by Bas van der Vossen on August 7, 2023.
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Libertarianism is a family of views in political philosophy. Libertarians take individual freedom as the paramount political value and understand coercion to be the antithesis of that freedom. While people can be justifiably be forced to do certain things – most obviously, to refrain from infringing the liberty of others – they cannot be coerced to serve the good of other members of society, nor even their own personal good….

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