Why Liberty
1st Edition
Published on 7. February 2022
119 pages
978-1-7325873-8-0 (ISBN)
Description
The ideas presented in this book are about an alternative view of politics: a politics, not of force, but of persuasion, of live-and-let-live, of rejecting both subjugation and domination.The essays are mainly written by younger people who are active in the Students For Liberty, a very dynamic and exciting international movement. They offer an introduction to the philosophy by which most human beings live their lives on a day-to-day basis.Being a libertarian means not only refraining from harming the rights of other people, namely, respecting the rules of justice with regards to other people, but also equipping yourself mentally to understand what it means for people to have rights, how rights create the foundation for peaceful social cooperation, and how voluntary societies work. It means standing up, not only for your own freedom, but for the freedom of other people.
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Content
- Intro
- Preface
- Why Be Libertarian?
- There Ought Not to Be a Law
- Libertarianism as Radical Centrism
- The History and Structure of Libertarian Thought
- "The Times, They Are A-Changin'": Libertarianism as Abolitionism
- The Political Principle of Liberty
- No Liberty, No Art: No Art, No Liberty
- The Humble Case for Liberty
- Africa's Promise of Liberty
- The Tangled Dynamics of State Interventionism: The Case of Health Care
- How Do You Know? Knowledge and the Presumption of Liberty
- The Origins of State and Government
