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Author : Frank S. Meyer
Publisher : Chicago : H. Regnery Company
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Conservatism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005385211
Author : Margaret Thatcher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040639689
Author : Amlan Datta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 8174872191
Author : Chris Berg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Freedom of expression
ISBN : 0909536740
Freedom of speech is at the heart of individual liberty and democracy. Yet, in Australia and around the Western world, it is under attack on all sides: from regulations to force 'balance' on the press, to new human rights like the right not to be offended. In this important new book, Chris Berg offers a bold reinterpretation of why freedom of speech matters. Only by understanding how the right to free expression and freedom of conscience arose can we understand the magnitude of the threats we now face. The liberty to express our thoughts and opinions is one of the central foundations of Western Civilisation. When governments threaten that freedom of speech, they threaten the foundations of liberty and the democratic system.
Author : Frank S. Meyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Law
ISBN : UVA:X004103846
First published in 1962, "In Defense of Freedom" examines the tension between the freedom of the person and the power of social institutions. In Frank Meyer's view, both the dominant liberalism and the "New Conservatism" of the American tradition place undue emphasis on the claims of social order at the expense of the individual person and liberty. In addition, Meyer insists that liberty is essential to the pursuit of virtue. Therefore, to Meyer, the proper end of political thought and action is the establishment and preservation of freedom. This edition also includes nine related essays, among them "Libertarianism or Libertinism?", "Freedom, Tradition, Conservatism" and "In Defense of John Stuart Mill".
Author : Jed Perl
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780593320051
From one of our most widely admired art critics comes a bold and timely manifesto reaffirming the independence of all the arts—musical, literary, and visual—and their unique and unparalleled power to excite, disturb, and inspire us. As people look to the arts to promote a particular ideology, whether radical, liberal, or conservative, Jed Perl argues that the arts have their own laws and logic, which transcend the controversies of any one moment. “Art’s relevance,” he writes, “has everything to do with what many regard as its irrelevance.” Authority and Freedom will find readers from college classrooms to foundation board meetings—wherever the arts are confronting social, political, and economic ferment and heated debates about political correctness and cancel culture. Perl embraces the work of creative spirits as varied as Mozart, Michelangelo, Jane Austen, Henry James, Picasso, and Aretha Franklin. He contends that the essence of the arts is their ability to free us from fixed definitions and categories. Art is inherently uncategorizable—that’s the key to its importance. Taking his stand with artists and thinkers ranging from W. H. Auden to Hannah Arendt, Perl defends works of art as adventuresome dialogues, simultaneously dispassionate and impassioned. He describes the fundamental sense of vocation—the engagement with the tools and traditions of a medium—that gives artists their purpose and focus. Whether we’re experiencing a poem, a painting, or an opera, it’s the interplay between authority and freedom—what Perl calls “the lifeblood of the arts”—that fuels the imaginative experience. This book will be essential reading for everybody who cares about the future of the arts in a democratic society.
Author : Matteo Millan,Alessandro Saluppo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000342390
This book provides a comparative and transnational examination of the complex and multifaceted experiences of anti-labour mobilisation, from the bitter social conflicts of the pre-war period, through the epochal tremors of war and revolution, and the violent spasms of the 1920s and 1930s. It retraces the formation of an extensive market for corporate policing, privately contracted security and yellow unionism, as well as processes of professionalisation in strikebreaking activities, labour espionage and surveillance. It reconstructs the diverse spectrum of right-wing patriotic leagues and vigilante corps which, in support or in competition with law enforcement agencies, sought to counter the dual dangers of industrial militancy and revolutionary situations. Although considerable research has been done on the rise of socialist parties and trade unions the repressive policies of their opponents have been generally left unexamined. This book fills this gap by reconstructing the methods and strategies used by state authorities and employers to counter outbreaks of labour militancy on a global scale. It adopts a long-term chronology that sheds light on the shocks and strains that marked industrial societies during their turbulent transition into mass politics from the bitter social conflicts of the pre-war period, through the epochal tremors of war and revolution, and the violent spasms of the 1920s and 1930s. Offering a new angle of vision to examine the violent transition to mass politics in industrial societies, this is of great interest to scholars of policing, unionism and striking in the modern era.
Author : Andrew S. Thompson
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780774859639
Since 9/11 and the onset of the "war on terror," the principal challenge confronting liberal democracies has been to balance freedom with security and individual with collective rights. This book sheds new light on the evolution of human rights norms in liberal democracies by charting the activism of four Canadian NGOs on issues of refugee rights, hate speech, and the death penalty, including their use of difficult, often controversial legal cases as platforms to assert human rights principles and shape judicial policy-making. The struggles of these NGOs reveal not only the fragility but also the resilience of ideas about rights in liberal democracies.
Author : Bas van der Vossen,Jason Brennan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190462963
The topic of global justice has long been a central concern within political philosophy and political theory, and there is no doubt that it will remain significant given the persistence of poverty on a massive scale and soaring global inequality. Yet, virtually every analysis in the vast literature of the subject seems ignorant of what developmental economists, both left and right, have to say about the issue. In Defense of Openness illuminates the problem by stressing that that there is overwhelming evidence that economic rights and freedom are necessary for development, and that global redistribution tends to hurt more than it helps. Bas van der Vossen and Jason Brennan instead ask what a theory of global justice would look like if it were informed by the facts that mainstream development and institutional economics have brought to light. They conceptualize global justice as global freedom and insist we can help the poor-and help ourselves at the same time-by implementing open borders, free trade, the strong protection of individual freedom, and economic rights and property for all around the world. In short, they work from empirical, consequentialist grounds to advocate for the market society as a model for global justice. A spirited challenge to mainstream political theory from two leading political philosophers, In Defense of Openness offers a new approach to global justice: We don't need to "save" the poor. The poor will save themselves, if we would only get out of their way and let them.
Author : C. A. Campbell, C A
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415295920
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Robert Lockie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350029064
In the first in-depth study of the transcendental argument for decades, Free Will and Epistemology defends a modern version of the famous transcendental argument for free will: that we could not be justified in undermining a strong notion of free will, as a strong notion of free will is required for any such process of undermining to be itself epistemically justified. By arguing for a conception of internalism that goes back to the early days of the internalist-externalist debates, it draws on work by Richard Foley, William Alston and Alvin Plantinga to explain the importance of epistemic deontology and its role in the transcendental argument. It expands on the principle that 'ought' implies 'can' and presents a strong case for a form of self-determination. With references to cases in the neuroscientific and cognitive-psychological literature, Free Will and Epistemology provides an original contribution to work on epistemic justification and the free will debate.
Author : F.J.C Hearnshaw
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752318845
Reproduction of the original: Freedom in Service by F.J.C Hearnshaw
Author : John G. Diefenbaker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015027074890
Author : Vlado Gotovac,Vera Čičin-Šain,Sonja Bašić,Vladimir Ivir,Nikolina Jovanović,Graham McMaster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Croatian literature
ISBN : 9531500665
Author : Elmer John Thiessen
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001-07-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780773569164
In placing his argument within the context of liberal-democratic values Thiessen gives concrete examples of objections to religious schools and offers practical suggestions that follow from the philosophical treatment of the problem. In Defence of Religious Schools and Colleges bridges the gap between philosophical argument and educational practice. It will be of interest not only to philosophers and educational theorists but also to practitioners in education. Academics, policy makers, political theorists, lay-people, teachers, administrators, and parents - those who object to religious schools and colleges and those who find themselves trying to answer the objections - will benefit from reading this book.