The Ethics of Liberty /

The Ethics of Liberty / / Murray N. Rothbard.

In recent years, libertarian impulses have increasingly influenced national and economic debates, from welfare reform to efforts to curtail affirmative action. Murray N. Rothbard's classic The Ethics of Liberty stands as one of the most rigorous and philosophically sophisticated expositions of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Rothbard, Murray N.,
MitwirkendeR:
Hoppe, Hans-Hermann,
TeilnehmendeR:
Hoppe, Hans-Hermann.
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • PREFACE
  • PART I: INTRODUCTION: NATURAL LAW
  • 1. Natural Law and Reason
  • 2. Natural Law as "Science"
  • 3. Natural Law versus Positive Law
  • 4. Natural Law and Natural Rights
  • 5. The Task of Political Philosophy
  • PART II: A THEORY OF LIBERTY
  • 6. A Crusoe Social Philosophy
  • 7. Interpersonal Relations: Voluntary Exchange
  • 8. Interpersonal Relations: Ownership and Aggression
  • 9. Property and Criminality
  • 10. The Problem of Land Theft
  • 11. Land Monopoly, Past and Present
  • 12. Self-Defense
  • 13. Punishment and Proportionality
  • 14. Children and Rights
  • 15. "Human Rights'' As Property Rights
  • 16. Knowledge, True and False
  • 17. Bribery
  • 18. The Boycott
  • 19. Property Rights and the Theory of Contracts
  • 20. Lifeboat Situations
  • 21. The "Rights" of Animals
  • PART III: THE STATE VERSUS LIBERTY
  • 22. The Nature of the State
  • 23. The Inner Contradictions of the State
  • 24. The Moral Status of Relations to the State
  • 25. On Relations Between States
  • PART IV: MODERN ALTERNATIVE THEORIES OF LIBERTY
  • 26. Utilitarian Free-Market Economics
  • 27. Isaiah Berlin on Negative Freedom
  • 28. EA. Hayek and The Concept of Coercion
  • 29. Robert Nozick and the Immaculate Conception of the State
  • PART V: TOWARD A THEORY OF STRATEGY FOR LIBERTY
  • 30. Toward a Theory of Strategy for Liberty
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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