The Limits Of Liberty Between Anarchy And Leviathan

Author : James M. Buchanan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226078205

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The Limits of Liberty by James M. Buchanan Pdf

"The Limits of Liberty is concerned mainly with two topics. One is an attempt to construct a new contractarian theory of the state, and the other deals with its legitimate limits. The latter is a matter of great practical importance and is of no small significance from the standpoint of political philosophy."—Scott Gordon, Journal of Political Economy James Buchanan offers a strikingly innovative approach to a pervasive problem of social philosophy. The problem is one of the classic paradoxes concerning man's freedom in society: in order to protect individual freedom, the state must restrict each person's right to act. Employing the techniques of modern economic analysis, Professor Buchanan reveals the conceptual basis of an individual's social rights by examining the evolution and development of these rights out of presocial conditions.

Author : Maldwyn Allen Jones
Publisher : Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Oxford University Press
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015008160684

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A history of America between the years 1607 and 1980.

Author : James McGill Buchanan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:530682365

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The limits of liberty, between anarchy and Leviathan by James McGill Buchanan Pdf

Author : J. C. Lester
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Anarchism
ISBN : 1908684089

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Escape from Leviathan by J. C. Lester Pdf

The most relevant and plausible conceptions of economic rationality, interpersonal liberty, human welfare, and private-property anarchy do not conflict in theory or practice. Using philosophy and social science, Escape from Leviathan defends this bold, non-normative, thesis from contrary positions in the scholarly literature. Writers considered include David Friedman, John Gray, R. M. Hare, Robert Nozick, Karl Popper, John Rawls, Murray Rothbard, Alan Ryan, Amartya Sen, and Bernard Williams The rationality assumptions of neoclassical and Austrian School economics are reconciled and related to liberty and welfare. A new pre-propertarian theory of interpersonal liberty as the absence of (initiated or proactively) imposed cost is argued to be libertarian. Human welfare is defended as the satisfaction of unimposed wants. Practical anarchy is simply unconstrained private property. Related topics include free will, weakness of will, the nature of moralizing, intellectual property, and restitution and retribution. Critical-rationalist epistemology (theories can only be criticized and tested, not justified or supported) is applied throughout. This is a ground-breaking work that is also an excellent introduction to libertarianism and social thought.

Author : James M. Buchanan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0865972524

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The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan by James M. Buchanan Pdf

An index to the series "The Collected works of James M. Buchanan."

Author : Geoffrey Brennan,James M. Buchanan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521070902

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The Reason of Rules by Geoffrey Brennan,James M. Buchanan Pdf

Societies function on the basis of rules. These rules, rather like the rules of the road, coordinate the activities of individuals who have a variety of goals and purposes. Whether the rules work well or ill, and how they can be made to work better, is a matter of major concern. Appropriately interpreted, the working of social rules is also the central subject matter of modern political economy. This book is about rules - what they are, how they work, and how they can be properly analysed. The authors' objective is to understand the workings of alternative political institutions so that choices among such institutions (rules) can be more fully informed. Thus, broadly defined, the methodology of constitutional political economy is the subject matter of The Reason of Rules. The authors have examined how rules for political order work, how such rules might be chosen, and how normative criteria for such choices might be established.

Author : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780486122144

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Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes Pdf

Written during a moment in English history when the political and social structures were in flux and open to interpretation, Leviathan played an essential role in the development of the modern world.

Author : Robert Nozick
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Anarchism
ISBN : 9780631197805

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Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick Pdf

Robert Nozicka s Anarchy, State, and Utopia is a powerful, philosophical challenge to the most widely held political and social positions of our age ---- liberal, socialist and conservative.

Author : Theodore Christov
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107114531

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Before Anarchy by Theodore Christov Pdf

Against the twentieth-century 'Hobbesian anarchy', Before Anarchy reconsiders the originality and reception of Hobbes's interpersonal and international state of nature.

Author : Matthew Wilson
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781782790082

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Rules Without Rulers by Matthew Wilson Pdf

This book is about the possibility of organising society without the state, but, crucially, it makes the claim, contrary to much anarchist theory, that such a life would not entail absolute freedom; rather, as the title suggests, it would mean creating new forms of social organisation which, whilst offering more freedom than state-capitalism, would nonetheless still entail certain limits to freedom. In making this argument, a secondary point is made, which highlights the book’s originality; namely, that, whilst anarchism is defended by an increasing number of radicals, the reality of what an anarchist society might look like, and the problems that such a society might encounter, are rarely discussed or acknowledged, either in academic or activist writings.

Author : Ioannis D. Evrigenis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521513722

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Images of Anarchy by Ioannis D. Evrigenis Pdf

Hobbes's concept of the natural condition of mankind became an inescapable point of reference for subsequent political thought, shaping the theories of emulators and critics alike, and has had a profound impact on our understanding of human nature, anarchy, and international relations. Yet, despite Hobbes's insistence on precision, the state of nature is an elusive concept. Has it ever existed and, if so, for whom? Hobbes offered several answers to these questions, which taken together reveal a consistent strategy aimed at providing his readers with a possible, probable, and memorable account of the consequences of disobedience. This book examines the development of this powerful image throughout Hobbes's works, and traces its origins in his sources of inspiration. The resulting trajectory of the state of nature illuminates the ways in which Hobbes employed a rhetoric of science and a science of rhetoric in his relentless pursuit of peace.

Author : Catherine H. Zuckert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226434803

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Machiavelli's Politics by Catherine H. Zuckert Pdf

Machiavelli is popularly known as a teacher of tyrants, a key proponent of the unscrupulous “Machiavellian” politics laid down in his landmark political treatise The Prince. Others cite the Discourses on Livy to argue that Machiavelli is actually a passionate advocate of republican politics who saw the need for occasional harsh measures to maintain political order. Which best characterizes the teachings of the prolific Italian philosopher? With Machiavelli’s Politics, Catherine H. Zuckert turns this question on its head with a major reinterpretation of Machiavelli’s prose works that reveals a surprisingly cohesive view of politics. Starting with Machiavelli’s two major political works, Zuckert persuasively shows that the moral revolution Machiavelli sets out in The Prince lays the foundation for the new form of democratic republic he proposes in the Discourses. Distrusting ambitious politicians to serve the public interest of their own accord, Machiavelli sought to persuade them in The Prince that the best way to achieve their own ambitions was to secure the desires and ambitions of their subjects and fellow citizens. In the Discourses, he then describes the types of laws and institutions that would balance the conflict between the two in a way that would secure the liberty of most, if not all. In the second half of her book, Zuckert places selected later works—La Mandragola, The Art of War, The Life of Castruccio Castracani, Clizia, and Florentine Histories—under scrutiny, showing how Machiavelli further developed certain aspects of his thought in these works. In The Art of War, for example, he explains more concretely how and to what extent the principles of organization he advanced in The Prince and the Discourses ought to be applied in modern circumstances. Because human beings act primarily on passions, Machiavelli attempts to show readers what those passions are and how they can be guided to have productive rather than destructive results. A stunning and ambitious analysis, Machiavelli’s Politics brilliantly shows how many conflicting perspectives do inform Machiavelli’s teachings, but that one needs to consider all of his works in order to understand how they cohere into a unified political view. This is a magisterial work that cannot be ignored if a comprehensive understanding of the philosopher is to be obtained.

Author : Vickie B. Sullivan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226482910

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Montesquieu and the Despotic Ideas of Europe by Vickie B. Sullivan Pdf

Montesquieu is famous as a tireless critic of despotism, which he associates overtly with Asia and the Middle East and not with the apparently more moderate Western models of governance found throughout Europe. However, Vickie B. Sullivan argues that a creaful reading of Montesquieu's enormously influential The Spirit of the Law reveals the surprising result that he recognizes that Europe itself is susceptible to despotic practices - and that the threat emanates not from the East but rather from certain despotic ideas that inform Western institutions and practices. Sullivan guides readers through Montesquieu's sometimes veiled yet sharply critical accounts of Machiavelli, Hobbes, Aristotle, and Plato, as well as various Christian thinkers have brough forth despotic ideas in the form, for example, of brutal Machiavellianism, of Hobbes's justifications for the rule of one, of Plato's reasoning that denied slaves the right of natural defense, and of the Christian teachings that equated heresy with treason. Such ideas, Montesquieu shows, inform such revered European institutions as the French monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church. In this new reading of Montesquieu's masterwork, Sullivan corrects the misconception that it offers simple, objective observations, showing it to be instead a powerful critique of European politics that would become remarkably and regrettably prescient after Montesquieu's death, when despotism repeatedly emerged in Europe with virulent intensity. -- from dust jacket.

Author : Karl Widerquist
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780748678679

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Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy by Karl Widerquist Pdf

How modern philosophers use and perpetuate myths about prehistoryThe state of nature, the origin of property, the origin of government, the primordial nature of inequality and war why do political philosophers talk so much about the Stone Age? And are they talking about a Stone Age that really happened, or is it just a convenient thought experiment to illustrate their points?Karl Widerquist and Grant S. McCall take a philosophical look at the origin of civilisation, examining political theories to show how claims about prehistory are used. Drawing on the best available evidence from archaeology and anthropology, they show that much of what we think we know about human origins comes from philosophers imagination, not scientific investigation.Key FeaturesShows how modern political theories employ ambiguous factual claims about prehistoryBrings archaeological and anthropological evidence to bear on those claimsTells the story of human origins in a way that reveals many commonly held misconceptions

Author : Tucidides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:633770083

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The English Works by Tucidides Pdf