Liberty, Right and Nature
Author: Annabel S. Brett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-10-16
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780521543408
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA major re-evaluation of the history of our thinking about rights.
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Author: Annabel S. Brett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-10-16
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780521543408
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA major re-evaluation of the history of our thinking about rights.
Author: Richard Cumberland
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Published: 1727
Total Pages: 824
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Neema Parvini
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-05-01
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 3030394522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Defenders of Liberty presents a history of economic liberalism from the Renaissance to the present. It chronicles the tradition of thought that sees human nature as social yet self-interested, methodological individualism as its key analytical tool, and property rights as foundational to a civilised society. In the development of this way of thinking, it considers the contributions of many key thinkers including Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Richard Cantillon, A.J.R. Turgot, David Hume, Adam Smith, Nassau William Senior, Richard Cobden, Herbert Spencer, Jean-Baptiste Say, Carl Menger, William Stanley Jevons, Gaetano Mosca, Eugen Böhm-Bawerk, Vilfredo Pareto, Phillip Wicksteed, Edwin Cannan, Ludwig von Mises, Lionel Robbins, F.A. Hayek, W.H. Hutt, Milton Friedman, George Stigler, Murray N. Rothbard, James M. Buchanan, and Thomas Sowell. The book contends that liberalism needs to be grounded in realism, and that it has been derailed whenever economists have deviated from an explicitly realist understanding of human nature, individualism and property rights. It argues that the cause of liberalism was compromised by errors in economic reasoning by such major figures as David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, Alfred Marshall, A.C. Pigou, and John Maynard Keynes. In diagnosing what has gone wrong for liberalism in the twenty-first century, The Defenders of Liberty argues against substituting mathematical abstraction for causal realism; it opposes interventionist central banking; it seeks to recover economic liberalism from social and political liberalism, which are somewhat unrelated schools of thought; it resists a view of human nature rooted in selfishness or atomised individualism; and finally alerts defenders of freedom to the ruthless but effective language games played by their opponents. This book will be of interest to the educated general reader as well as undergraduates and postgraduates in disciplines such as economics, political theory and philosophy.
Author: Samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf
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Published: 1716
Total Pages: 462
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Published: 1776
Total Pages: 140
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Brian Tierney
Publisher: CUA Press
Published: 2014-02-14
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 0813225817
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiberty and Law examines a previously underappreciated theme in legal history - the idea of permissive natural law. The idea is mentioned only peripherally, if at all, in modern histories of natural law. Yet it engaged the attention of jurists, philosophers, and theologians over a long period and formed an integral part of their teachings. This ensured that natural law was not conceived of as merely a set of commands and prohibitions that restricted human conduct, but also as affirming a realm of human freedom, understood as both freedom from subjection and freedom of choice. Freedom can be used in many ways, and throughout the whole period from 1100 to 1800 the idea of permissive natural law was deployed for various purposes in response to different problems that arose. It was frequently invoked to explain the origin of private property and the beginnings of civil government.
Author: Ellen Frankel Paul
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780521615143
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The essays in this book have also been published, without introduction and index, in the semiannual journal Social philosophy & policy, volume 22, number 1"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author: Emer de Vattel
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Published: 1856
Total Pages: 668
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Florence Bass
Publisher: Christian Liberty Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781930092518
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis colorful reader will introduce the student to God s marvelous creation and reinforce phonics principles. The student will also learn beginning dictionary skills as he is exposed to new words. Grade 1."
Author: Heinrich Albert Rommen
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780865971615
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in German in 1936, The Natural Law is the first work to clarify the differences between traditional natural law as represented in the writings of Cicero, Aquinas, and Hooker and the revolutionary doctrines of natural rights espoused by Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau. Beginning with the legacies of Greek and Roman life and thought, Rommen traces the natural law tradition to its displacement by legal positivism and concludes with what the author calls "the reappearance" of natural law thought in more recent times. In seven chapters each Rommen explores "The History of the Idea of Natural Law" and "The Philosophy and Content of the Natural Law." In his introduction, Russell Hittinger places Rommen's work in the context of contemporary debate on the relevance of natural law to philosophical inquiry and constitutional interpretation. Heinrich Rommen (1897–1967) taught in Germany and England before concluding his distinguished scholarly career at Georgetown University. Russell Hittinger is William K. Warren Professor of Catholic Studies and Research Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa.