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The promise of liberty : a non-utopian vision /

The fully free society is but a promise, rarely completely fulfilled but clearly a possibility, not a utopia. This work shows both the promise and why it can be reasonably well fulfilled.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Machan, Tibor R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, 2008.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Why moral judgments can be objective
  • Theorists v. their theories : the case of agent causation
  • Ethics and its controversial assumptions : individualism & human success
  • Virtue, liberty, and private property : aspects of humanist political economy
  • Economic analysis and the pursuit of liberty
  • Human rights and poverty
  • Rights, values, regulation, and health care
  • The morality of smoking
  • Philosophy, physics, and common sense
  • The calculation problem & the tragedy of the common
  • Government budget crises
  • Right to private property
  • Revisiting a critique
  • Leo Strauss & neo-conservatism
  • Tocqueville & Ayn Rand
  • Should the constitution be rescued?
  • Distraction of anarchism
  • On owning intellectual stuff
  • Fetal rights & liberty
  • Speculation on post-communism
  • The right to be wrong
  • Reflections on democracy
  • The flaws of stakeholder theory
  • Individualism should respect rights.