The promise of liberty [[electronic resource] ] : a non-utopian vision / / Tibor R. Machan
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Machan Tibor R
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The promise of liberty [[electronic resource] ] : a non-utopian vision / / Tibor R. Machan
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham, MD, : Lexington Books, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 320.01/1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Liberty - Philosophy |
| Liberty | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: Why moral judgments can be objective -- Theorists versus their theories : the case of agent causation -- Ethics and its controversial assumptions -- Individualism and 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 and the tragedy of the commons -- Government budget crises -- Some reflections on the right to private property -- Revisiting a critique of libertarianism -- Leo Strauss, neo-conservative? -- Tocqueville and Rand, contrasting views of individualism -- Can and should the constitution be rescued? -- The distraction of anarchism -- "Intellectual" stuff and the right to private property -- Fetal rights : implications of a supposed ought -- 1985 speculation : the fate of Soviet colonies after the fall -- Does one have a right to be wrong? -- Reflections on democracy -- Altruism (stakeholder theory) versus business ethics -- Yes, individualists should respect others' rights. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The promise of liberty |
| ISBN: | 1-282-49349-3 |
| 9786612493492 | |
| 0-7391-3076-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910821376503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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