Modern Understandings Of Liberty And Property

Author : Richard A. Epstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135699376

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First Published in 2000. The materials in this collection are drawn from many disciplines, including economics, law, philosophy and political science. Yet they are all directed to a topic that is worthy of examination from multiple perspectives: Liberty, Property and the Law. Stated in this general form, this topic is broad as law itself. The relationship of liberty and property to the law surfaces whenever and wherever people interact with each other under the command and control of the sovereign. This is Volume II of five and concerns the extent to which the state should enforce or override private contracts made by individuals to dispose of their labor or capital. These issues did not disappear by the onset of the twentieth century, where Volume II picks up. Generally speaking, however, the tools of analysis shifted as the advances in economic theory helped to flesh out the justifications offered for individual liberty and private property on the one hand, and their social control on the other. Although the nature of the discourse changed to some degree, the division of opinion on the proper role of liberty and property remained as sharply contested as it was in earlier times.

Author : Richard A. Epstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135699307

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Modern Understandings of Liberty and Property by Richard A. Epstein Pdf

First Published in 2000. The materials in this collection are drawn from many disciplines, including economics, law, philosophy and political science. Yet they are all directed to a topic that is worthy of examination from multiple perspectives: Liberty, Property and the Law. Stated in this general form, this topic is broad as law itself. The relationship of liberty and property to the law surfaces whenever and wherever people interact with each other under the command and control of the sovereign. This is Volume II of five and concerns the extent to which the state should enforce or override private contracts made by individuals to dispose of their labor or capital. These issues did not disappear by the onset of the twentieth century, where Volume II picks up. Generally speaking, however, the tools of analysis shifted as the advances in economic theory helped to flesh out the justifications offered for individual liberty and private property on the one hand, and their social control on the other. Although the nature of the discourse changed to some degree, the division of opinion on the proper role of liberty and property remained as sharply contested as it was in earlier times.

Author : Ellen Meiksins Wood
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781844677528

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Liberty and Property by Ellen Meiksins Wood Pdf

The formation of the modern state, the rise of capitalism, the Renaissance and Reformation, the scientific revolution and the Age of Enlightenment have all been attributed to the “early modern” period. Nearly everything about its history remains controversial, but one thing is certain: it left a rich and provocative legacy of political ideas unmatched in Western history. The concepts of liberty, equality, property, human rights and revolution born in those turbulent centuries continue to shape, and to limit, political discourse today. Assessing the work and background of figures such as Machiavelli, Luther, Calvin, Spinoza, the Levellers, Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, Ellen Wood vividly explores the ideas of the canonical thinkers, not as philosophical abstractions but as passionately engaged responses to the social conflicts of their day.

Author : Isaiah Berlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:802011311

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Two Concepts of Liberty by Isaiah Berlin Pdf

Author : John Stuart Mill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Liberty
ISBN : HARVARD:32044024786071

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On Liberty by John Stuart Mill Pdf

Author : John Locke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Liberty
ISBN : 7500426518

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Two Treatises of Government by John Locke Pdf

Author : Charlotte Epstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190917623

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Birth of the State by Charlotte Epstein Pdf

This book uses the body to peel back the layers of time and taken-for-granted ideas about the two defining political forms of modernity, the state and the subject of rights. It traces, under the lens of the body, how the state and the subject mutually constituted each other since their original crafting in the seventeenth century. Considering multiple sites of theory and practice, Charlotte Epstein analyses the fundamental rights to security, liberty, and property respectively as the initial knots where the state-subject relation was first sealed.

Author : John Locke
Publisher : London : Pall Mall Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Liberty
ISBN : UOM:39015000370083

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Locke and Liberty by John Locke Pdf

Author : Annelien De Dijn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674245594

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Freedom by Annelien De Dijn Pdf

Winner of the PROSE Award An NRC Handelsblad Best Book of the Year “Ambitious and impressive...At a time when the very survival of both freedom and democracy seems uncertain, books like this are more important than ever.” —The Nation “Helps explain how partisans on both the right and the left can claim to be protectors of liberty, yet hold radically different understandings of its meaning...This deeply informed history of an idea has the potential to combat political polarization.” —Publishers Weekly “Ambitious and bold, this book will have an enormous impact on how we think about the place of freedom in the Western tradition.” —Samuel Moyn, author of Not Enough “Brings remarkable clarity to a big and messy subject...New insights and hard-hitting conclusions about the resistance to democracy make this essential reading for anyone interested in the roots of our current dilemmas.” —Lynn Hunt, author of History: Why It Matters For centuries people in the West identified freedom with the ability to exercise control over the way in which they were governed. The equation of liberty with restraints on state power—what most people today associate with freedom—was a deliberate and dramatic rupture with long-established ways of thinking. So what triggered this fateful reversal? In a masterful and surprising reappraisal of more than two thousand years of Western thinking about freedom, Annelien de Dijn argues that this was not the natural outcome of such secular trends as the growth of religious tolerance or the creation of market societies. Rather, it was propelled by an antidemocratic backlash following the French and American Revolutions. The notion that freedom is best preserved by shrinking the sphere of government was not invented by the revolutionaries who created our modern democracies—it was first conceived by their critics and opponents. De Dijn shows that far from following in the path of early American patriots, today’s critics of “big government” owe more to the counterrevolutionaries who tried to undo their work.

Author : Ludwig Von Mises
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 9781610164078

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Liberty and Property by Ludwig Von Mises Pdf

"Originally delivered as a lecture at Princeton University, October 1958, at the 9th meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society"--Page 7. Includes bibliographical references.

Author : Polly J. Price
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781576077696

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Property Rights by Polly J. Price Pdf

A survey of the evolution of property rights in the United States—from constitutional protections and due process to private property rights and government-takings doctrines. Legal opinions and public attitudes toward property rights have fluctuated over the years, from periods when almost any infringement of these rights was impermissible, to times in which the government was granted much wider latitude. This book examines the history of individual property ownership in the U.S. from the late colonial era to the present, explaining how property rights were established, defended, and sometimes later reinterpreted. Of special interest are rights that have developed over time, such as due process, just compensation for government "takings" of private property, and the rights landowners may assert against other persons. Of particular interest to today's readers are government regulation of private property for environmental purposes, challenges to zoning regulations, and intellectual property rights in cyberspace.

Author : Joseph S. Jenkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317116646

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Inheritance Law and Political Theology in Shakespeare and Milton by Joseph S. Jenkins Pdf

Reading God's will and a man's Last Will as ideas that reinforce one another, this study shows the relevance of England's early modern crisis, regarding faith in the will of God, to current debates by legal academics on the theory of property and its succession. The increasing power of the dead under law in the US, the UK, and beyond-a concern of recent volumes in law and social sciences-is here addressed through a distinctive approach based on law and humanities. Vividly treating literary and biblical battles of will, the book suggests approaches to legal constitution informed by these dramas and by English legal history. This study investigates correlations between the will of God in Judeo-Christian traditions and the Last Wills of humans, especially dominant males, in cultures where these traditions have developed. It is interdisciplinary, in the sense that it engages with the limits of several fields: it is informed by humanities critical theory, especially Benjaminian historical materialism and Lacanian psychoanalysis, but refrains from detailed theoretical considerations. Dramatic narratives from the Bible, Shakespeare, and Milton are read as suggesting real possibilities for alternative inheritance (i.e., constitutional) regimes. As Jenkins shows, these texts propose ways to alleviate violence, violence both personal and political, through attention to inheritance law.

Author : Benjamin Constant
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066437855

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The Liberty of Ancients Compared with that of Moderns by Benjamin Constant Pdf

This is an essay by Benjamin Constant. In this essay, Constant contrasted two views on freedom: one held by "the Ancients," particularly those in Classical Greece, and the other by members of modern societies. He investigates the dangers of attempting to impose ancient liberty in a modern context, as well as the risks associated with each type of liberty. The danger of ancient liberty was that men, preoccupied with securing their share of social power, might place too little value on individual rights and pleasures. The danger of modern liberty is that we will give up our right to participate in political power too easily, absorbed in the enjoyment of our independence and the pursuit of our particular interests." Constant believes that the two types of liberty must eventually be combined.

Author : Richard A. Epstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135699093

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Classical Foundations of Liberty and Property by Richard A. Epstein Pdf

The materials in this collection are drawn from many disciplines, including economics,law, philosophy and political science. Yet they are all directed to a topic that is worthy of examination from multiple perspectives: "Liberty, Property and the Law." Stated in this general form, this topic is as broad as law itself. The relationship of liberty andproperty to the law surfaces whenever and wherever people interact with each otherunder the command and control of the sovereign. Those who hold sovereign power may choose to protect liberty and property or to undermine it. But the regrettably high frequency of political abuse throughout the world does not justify the exercise ofarbitrary legal power; nor does it limit human aspirations for a sound legal and socialorder to block political excesses. First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : John Stuart Mill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Economics
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CR00307505

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Principles of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill Pdf