To commemorate the 50th anniversary of F. A. Hayek’s Nobel Prize in Economics (1974), this week Lib er tar i an ism .org will republish Hayek’s Nobel Address and Lecture (delivered December 10 and 11, 1974).

2019年7月29日 · Liberty made great progress over hundreds of years, but the first half of the 20th century saw it in retreat. It was a time of savage war, oppression, genocide, protectionism, socialism, fascism—a time when humanity experienced the awful power of …

Libertarianism is rooted, historically and philosophically, in the liberalism of the Enlightenment.But although it belongs to an intellectual tradition dating back centuries, libertarianism embraces a vision of political liberty which is, even today, revolutionary.

The word liberalism refers to a distinctive set of beliefs and an associated political movement that appeared in the early 19th century.The first recorded occurrence of the term was in Spain in 1823 when the term liberales, or freedom lovers, was used to describe supporters of the constitutional regime established after the Napoleonic wars.(The liberals’ opponents, supporters of the absolute ...

Paul Meany started working as the intellectual history editor at Lib er tar i an ism .org in 2019. His work focuses on liberty before liberalism, uncovering how ancient and medieval ideas influenced our modern conceptions of rights, liberty, and autonomy.

1997年1月15日 · Both the two main lines of Western thought, the Greek and the Judeo- Christian, contributed to the development of freedom. According to the Old Testament, the people of Israel lived without a king or any other coercive authority, governing themselves not by force but by their mutual adherence to their covenant with God.

2011年11月3日 · In the first lecture in the "Exploring Liberty" series, David Boaz, the author of Libertarianism: A Primer, gives an introduction to the theory and politics of liberty.Libertarianism is the belief that each person has the right to live his life as he chooses so long as he respects the equal rights of others.

A collection of nine original essays by top philosophers introducing the major moral theories and how they support a libertarian political system. With personal stories, historical anecdotes, theological insights, and a very accessible prose, this is the little big book on the intersection of …

2008年10月14日 · Jason Kuznicki was a senior fellow and the editor of Cato Books and of Cato Unbound, the Cato Institute’s online journal of debate.His first book, Technology and the End of Authority: What Is Government For? (Palgrave, 2017) surveys western political theory from a libertarian perspective.

2008年8月15日 · Many critics theorize that this spirit of entitlement is both a symptom and a cause of expansive government. In any event, it is an obstacle to limiting government and an impediment to nourishing personal responsibility because a spirit of entitlement encourages people to depend on others rather than on themselves and to hold others rather than themselves accountable for their circumstances.