# Rothbard's Ethics of Liberty, Part 2 **URL:** **By** Grant Babcock, Jason Kuznicki, Aaron Ross Powell, Trevor Burrus **Published:** April 15, 2016 --- Aaron Powell, Trevor Burrus, Grant Babcock, and Jason Kuznicki discuss the second part of Murray Rothbard's book _The Ethics of Liberty_. Murray Rothbard wrote [_The Ethics of Liberty_](http://www.amazon.com/The-Ethics-Liberty-Murray-Rothbard/dp/0814775594) in 1982 as a full moral theory of the ethical considerations libertarianism requires and what these considerations would prevent the state from doing. This week we begin a discussion on the second part of _The Ethics of Liberty_. What is Rothbard's universal ethic? According to Rothbard, how can property originally be justly acquired? What would ownership in a Rothbardian free market system look like? [Here is our discussion on part one of](https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/free-thoughts/rothbards-ethics-of-liberty-part-1) _[The Ethics of Liberty](https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/free-thoughts/rothbards-ethics-of-liberty-part-1)._