Challenge of Liberty : Classical Liberalism Today.
Title:
Challenge of Liberty : Classical Liberalism Today.
Author:
Higgs, Robert.
ISBN:
9781598131093
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (450 pages)
Contents:
Front Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I - Is Classical Liberalism Still Vital? -- Chapter 1:The Soul of Classical Liberalism -- Chapter 2:Economics with Romance -- Chapter 3:From Smith to Menger to Hayek: Liberalism in the Spontaneous-Order Tradition -- Chapter 4:Liberalism, Loose or Strict -- Part II - Freedom and the Moral Society -- Chapter 5:On the Nature of Civil Society -- Chapter 6:Liberty, Dignity, and Responsibility: The Moral Triad of a Good Society -- Chapter 7:Moral Capital and Commercial Society -- Chapter 8:Liberalism and the Common Good: A Hayekian Perspective on Communitarianism -- Part III - Securing Freedom -- Chapter 9:Securing Constitutional Government: The Perpetual Challenge -- Chapter 10:The Primacy of Property in a Liberal Constitutional Order: Lessons for China -- Chapter 11:The Will to be Free: The Role of Ideology in National Defense -- Chapter 12:The Inhumanity of Government Bureaucracies -- Part IV - Individualism Versus "Group Think" -- Chapter 13:Freedom of Religion and Public Schooling -- Chapter 14:Is National Rational? -- Chapter 15:A Critique of Group Loyalty -- Chapter 16:The Therapeutic State: The Tyranny of Pharmacracy -- Part V - Classical Liberals Respond to their Critics -- Chapter 17:What is Living and What is Dead in Classical Liberalism -- Chapter 18:The Ways of John Gray: A Libertarian Commentary -- Chapter 19:An Original Omission? Property in Rawls's Political Thought -- Chapter 20:Has John Roemer Resurrected Market Socialism? -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
The quest for freedom has always been as much a battle of ideas as it is a popular struggle. Classical liberal pioneers such as John Locke and Adam Smith stressed the inherent worth of the individual, inalienable rights, and the benevolent consequences of the cooperative, peaceful pursuit of one's own happiness. These ideas became the intellectual scaffolding for much of the West's most fundamental institutions and achievements. Yet after its 19th-century high-water mark, classical liberalism lost much of its passion, focus, and popular support. Intellectual trends increasingly began to support coercive egalitarianism, empire, and central planning at the expense of individual liberty, personal responsibility, private property, natural law, and free institutions.But the eclipse of classical liberalism by contemporary liberalism and conservatism is passing. The Challenge of Liberty restores the ideas and ideals of classical liberalism and shows how its contemporary exponents defend such pillars of free societies as individual rights, human dignity, market processes, and the rule of law.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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