Escape from Leviathan: Libertarianism Without Justificationism - Softcover

Lester, J. C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908684089 ISBN 13: 9781908684080

Verlag: UNIV OF BUCKINGHAM PR, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

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. Writers considered include 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 moralizing, intellectual property, and restitution and retribution. Critical-rationalist epistemology (theories can only be criticized and tested, not justified or supported) is applied throughout. This is a ground-breaking work that is also an excellent introduction to libertarianism and social thought.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: UNIV OF BUCKINGHAM PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1908684089
• ISBN 13: 9781908684080
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
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