
Escape From Leviathan
Libertarianism without Justificationism
J. C. Lester(Author)
The University of Buckingham Press
Will be published approx. on 4. May 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-908684-08-0 (ISBN)
Description
"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.
Considering authors such as 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 moralising, intellectual property and restitution and retribution.
This is a ground-breaking piece of work, functioning as an excellent introduction to libertarianism and social thought.
Using philosophy and social science, Escape from Leviathan defends this bold, non-normative thesis from contrary positions in the scholarly literature.
Considering authors such as 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 moralising, intellectual property and restitution and retribution.
This is a ground-breaking piece of work, functioning as an excellent introduction to libertarianism and social thought.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Legend Press Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
397 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-908684-08-0 (9781908684080)
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