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_eAFNOR
072 _aSHS
082 0 4 _a320.011
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100 1 _aMachan, Tibor R.
_eAuteur
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245 1 4 _aThe promise of liberty
_h[Texte imprimé] :
_ba non-utopian vision /
_cTibor R. Machan
260 _aLanham :
_bLexington Books,
_cc2009.
300 _a1 vol. (xiii-297 p.) ;
_c24 cm.
500 _aIndex
504 _aNotes bibliogr.
505 0 _aIntroduction: Why moral judgments can be objective -- Theorists versus their theories : the case of agent causation -- Ethics and its controversial assumptions -- Individualism and human success -- Virtue, liberty, and private property : aspects of humanist political economy -- Economic analysis and the pursuit of liberty -- Human rights and poverty -- Rights, values, regulation, and health care -- The morality of smoking -- Philosophy, physics, and common sense -- The calculation problem and the tragedy of the commons -- Government budget crises -- Some reflections on the right to private property -- Revisiting a critique of libertarianism -- Leo Strauss, neo-conservative? -- Tocqueville and Rand, contrasting views of individualism -- Can and should the constitution be rescued? -- The distraction of anarchism -- "Intellectual" stuff and the right to private property -- Fetal rights : implications of a supposed ought -- 1985 speculation : the fate of Soviet colonies after the fall -- Does one have a right to be wrong? -- Reflections on democracy -- Altruism (stakeholder theory) versus business ethics -- Yes, individualists should respect others' rights
653 _aLiberty
_xPhilosophy
653 _aLiberty
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