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The Ethics of Liberty
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- Summary
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This updated edition of a classic defense of libertarianism includes a new introduction.
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- English
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- Publication
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- New York : NYU Press, 2015
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (359 pages)
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- ISBNs
- 9781479895496, 1479895490, 9780814775066
- OCLC
- ocn957436547
- Cover; 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 Rights16. 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; A. Introduction: Utilitarian Social Philosophy; B. The Unanimity and Compensation Principles
- C. Ludwig von Mises and Value-Free Laissez Faire27. Isaiah Berlin on Negative Freedom; 28. F.A. 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z