Philosopher

Lysander Spooner

Overview

Lysander Spooner (January 19, 1808 – May 14, 1887) was an American abolitionist, entrepreneur, lawyer, essayist, natural rights legal theorist, pamphleteer, political philosopher, and writer often associated with the Boston anarchist tradition.

Spooner was a strong advocate of the labor movement and is politically identified with individualist anarchism. His writings contributed to the development of both left-libertarian and right-libertarian political theory.

Spooner's writings include the abolitionist book The Unconstitutionality of Slavery and No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority, which opposed treason charges against secessionists.

He is known for establishing the American Letter Mail Company, which competed with the United States Postal Service.

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Lysander Spooner

• The Ego and Its Own
• George H. Smith
• Thomas Sowell
• Murray Rothbard

Ideas Lysander Spooner discusses

• Western philosophy
• Individualist anarchism
• Massachusetts
• Wage labour
• Southern United States
• 19th-century philosophy
• Natural law
• Political philosophy
• Boston
• Pamphlet
• Baltimore
• Constitution of the United States
• Supreme Court of the United States
• Sparta
• Benjamin Tucker
• Abolitionism in the United States
• Philadelphia
• Cornell University
• Deism
• American Civil War
• Pamphleteer
• Militant

Place in the tradition

Part of Liberalism.

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