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.
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| Language: | English |
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Lanham, MD :
Lexington Books,
2008
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
