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Book Description

0907845630 978-0907845638 May 2003
The Liberty Option advances the idea that for compelling moral as well as practical reasons it is the free society -- with the rule of law founded on the
principles of private property rights, its complete respect for individual sovereignty and properly limited legal authorities -- not one or another version of
statism that serves justice best, is most prosperous and encourages the greatest measure of individual virtue on the part of the citizenry. The work shows why
this is so and lays out some of the most crucial implications of the idea. While the book presents a principled approach to politics, it is firmly grounded in the
best and most up to date understanding of human community life and history as well as many of its complications, challenges, adversities and prospects.

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"A technical but well argued defence of liberty against statism in its various forms." -- Network

"The arguments are anchored largely in the choppy waters of American politics, but they nonetheless have a wider resonance." -- Commonwealth Lawyer

About the Author

Tibor R. Machan is a Hoover research fellow, Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, Auburn University, Alabama, and holds the R. C. Hoiles Endowed Chair in Business Ethics and Free Enterprise at the Argyros School of Business & Economics, Chapman University.

Machan has written more than a dozen books in epistemology, ethics, political philosophy and business ethics and has co-edited more than 20 books with contributions from some of the most prominent thinkers in political economy. He has taught at Auburn University, UCSB, Franklin College, Switzerland, the US Military Academy, West Point and Chapman University.


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Human liberty - in the sense that each adult person is a sovereign citizen and no one has control of others' actions without their permission - is still, objectively speaking, the highest political value, despite the relentless and often sophisticated and subtle contentions to the contrary. Read the first page
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human community life, basic individual rights
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Karl Marx, New York, United States of America, John Locke, Adam Smith, Ayn Rand, Cambridge University Press, Charles Taylor, Oxford University Press, Richard Tuck, The Libertarian Reader
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