Description |
xlix, 308 pages ; 23 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
Note |
Originally published: Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press, 1982. With new introd. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-293) and index. |
Contents |
Natural law and reason -- Natural law as "science" -- Natural law versus positive law -- Natural law and natural rights -- The task of political philosophy -- A Crusoe social philosophy -- Interpersonal relations : voluntary exchange -- Interpersonal relations : ownership and aggression -- Property and criminality -- The problem of land theft -- Land monopoly, past and present -- Self-defense -- Punishment and proportionality -- Children and rights -- "Human rights" as property rights -- Knowledge, true and false -- Bribery -- The boycott -- Property rights and the theory of contracts -- Lifeboat situations -- The "rights" of animals -- The nature of the state -- The inner contradictions of the state -- The moral status of relations to the state -- On relations between states -- Utilitarian free-market economics -- Isaiah Berlin on negative freedom -- F.A. Hayek and the concept of coercion -- Robert Nozick and the immaculate conception of the state -- Toward a theory of strategy for liberty. |
Subject |
Liberty.
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Natural law.
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Ethics.
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Ethics. (OCoLC)fst00915833
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Liberty. (OCoLC)fst00997251
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Natural law. (OCoLC)fst01034366
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ISBN |
9780814775592 (pbk.) |
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0814775594 (pbk.) |
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