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In this third and final essay in the series celebrating the 50th anniversary of Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Eric Mack returns to a fuller consideration of how Nozick defends the legitimacy of the minimal state against the anarchist arguments advanced by Murray Rothbard.
What is Libertarianism? | Libertarianism.org
2019年7月29日 · Liberty made great progress over hundreds of years, but the first half of the 20th century saw it in retreat. It was a time of savage war, oppression, genocide, protectionism, socialism, fascism—a time when humanity experienced the awful power of …
What is a libertarian? | Libertarianism.org
Libertarianism is rooted, historically and philosophically, in the liberalism of the Enlightenment.But although it belongs to an intellectual tradition dating back centuries, libertarianism embraces a vision of political liberty which is, even today, revolutionary.
A History of Libertarianism
1997年1月15日 · Both the two main lines of Western thought, the Greek and the Judeo- Christian, contributed to the development of freedom. According to the Old Testament, the people of Israel lived without a king or any other coercive authority, governing themselves not by force but by their mutual adherence to their covenant with God.
Books - Libertarianism.org
A collection of nine original essays by top philosophers introducing the major moral theories and how they support a libertarian political system. With personal stories, historical anecdotes, theological insights, and a very accessible prose, this is the little big book on the intersection of …
Introducing Libertarianism: A Reading List
2011年11月3日 · Libertarianism—its theory, its practice—is an awfully big topic. This reading list gives you a place to start. A combination of newcomers and established classics, these books offer accessible introductions to variety of libertarian thought, …
About Libertarianism.org | Libertarianism.org
Paul Meany started working as the intellectual history editor at Lib er tar i an ism .org in 2019. His work focuses on liberty before liberalism, uncovering how ancient and medieval ideas influenced our modern conceptions of rights, liberty, and autonomy.
Positive Liberty: A Libertarianism.org Guide
2008年8月15日 · Although Isaiah Berlin is often credited with distinguishing positive from negative liberty, this view was, in fact, put forward in the 19th century by, among others, the English political philosopher T. H. Green, who provided a particularly cogent analysis of what positive liberty, or freedom, implies.
Encyclopedia of Libertarianism
2008年10月14日 · Jason Kuznicki was a senior fellow and the editor of Cato Books and of Cato Unbound, the Cato Institute’s online journal of debate.His first book, Technology and the End of Authority: What Is Government For? (Palgrave, 2017) surveys western political theory from a libertarian perspective.
The Roots of Modern Libertarian Ideas | Libertarianism.org
2007年3月1日 · The libertarian vision is in the Declaration of Independence: we are all created equal; no one ought to have any special rights and privileges in his social relations with other people.