Liberty
Subtitle: God's gift to humanity
By: Chana B. Cox.
Publisher: Lexington Books, a division of Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lanham, [Md.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Liberalism.; Liberty.; Political science -- Philosophy.
Description: "Liberty: God's Gift to Humanity is a defense of liberalism, the political philosophy which holds that governments should be established for the protection of individual liberty. Since the seventeenth century the bond between liberalism and religion has been strong. Where and when that bond has been severed, liberalism has withered and religion has become tyrannical. Although libertarians, free market economists, and the Christian right often disagree about the nature of man and the nature of the universe, this work provides a philosophically and historically coherent account of their shared commitment to limited government and individual liberty."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The birth of a principle; title: On Hobbes and the new science of government; title: John Locke; title: Hobbes, Locke, and the critics; title: Men and not angels; title: Adam Smith and the new science of freedom; title: Individual liberty meets free market capitalism; title: The nineteenth century : individualism unbound; title: The twentieth century and beyond.