In Aristotle’s well-known Ethics, he poses an age-old question: Can reasoning guide action, and should it direct our way of living? Unfortunately, this question loses its relevancy when put in the context of coercive governments, not unlike our own twenty-first-century American government which is hypervigilant and ever present in many aspects of our lives, including our education. What autonomy are people left with for the formation of reasoning when their beliefs and actions have already been decided for them through indoctrination and regulation? Our current economic and political institutions have left our use of speculative and practical reasoning handicapped, and I would argue that a range of autonomy, as defined through Murray Rothbard’s theory of self-ownership, provides a solution

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