The promise of liberty
Subtitle: a non-utopian vision
By: Tibor R. Machan.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780739130742; 9780739130766
Subjects: Liberty -- Philosophy; Liberty
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Why moral judgments can be objective; title: Theorists v. their theories : the case of agent causation; title: Ethics and its controversial assumptions : individualism & human success; title: Virtue, liberty, and private property : aspects of humanist political economy; title: Economic analysis and the pursuit of liberty; title: Human rights and poverty; title: Rights, values, regulation, and health care; title: The morality of smoking; title: Philosophy, physics, and common sense; title: The calculation problem & the tragedy of the common; title: Government budget crises; title: Right to private property; title: Revisiting a critique; title: Leo Strauss & neo-conservatism; title: Tocqueville & Ayn Rand; title: Should the constitution be rescued?; title: Distraction of anarchism; title: On owning intellectual stuff; title: Fetal rights & liberty; title: Speculation on post-communism; title: The right to be wrong; title: Reflections on democracy; title: The flaws of stakeholder theory; title: Individualism should respect rights.