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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Libertarianism"”.
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Persons, property and morality : a defence of political libertarianism
… ethics. The author identifies three variants of libertarianism on the basis of their different treatments of the right to private property, which all three consider to be the cornerstone of political libertarianism. The author evaluates the arguments of Robert Nozick, Murray Rothbard, John …
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Modified Libertarianism: An Analysis of Eleonore Stump's Interpretation of Augustinian Freedom
… which she characterizes as a modified form of libertarianism. Stump’s desire is to identify modified libertarianism as an original contribution to the free will debate which she claims is evident in Augustine’s writings throughout his career. After a thorough evaluation of the influences upon …
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Nozick's political philosophy.
… was a pioneer of a particular form of libertarianism, known as deontological libertarianism, which is built upon a foundation of strict moral rules and property rights. This thesis evaluates three particular aspects of Nozick's libertarian philosophy, beginning with the foundational …
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A libertarian theory of property: its justification, critique and implications
… Over 3 the author departs from the 'orthodox' libertarianism of Murray Rothbard, Ayn Rand and John Hospers in favour of a 'welfarist' libertarianism that is more in accord with the positions of Robert Nozick, Milton Friedman, Friedrich v. Hayek and others, and which is closer to the spirit of …
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Advertising and social responsibility as models of the press: a study of three local newspapers
… "social responsibility" doctrine, thus replacing libertarianism. Others argue that an advertising model has become the natural heir to libertarianism in the press.
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Having and Being an Ideal-Self: An Essay at Understanding Un-Iffy Freedom
While discussing pure-libertarianism, hard-determinism, and soft-determinism, the author adopts the latter, not only because he thinks this characterization of freedom accounts best for various common intuitions about freedom, but because this view of freedom is compatible with the determinism that …
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Liberty for Individuality
… & Politics Over the last couple of decades libertarianism has gained a lot of attention and garnered much public support. The movement stands at a critical juncture with a great opportunity before it. It has the option of continuing as it isas a marginal critique of other mainstream …
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Free will and logic
… of theses that we call 'Determinism' and 'Libertarianism' and show that the failure to make these distinctions, or the neglect of them once they have been made, is the source of many confusions and fallacious reasonings. Following an analysis of some importantly different kinds of use of …
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Free will and logic
… of theses that we call 'Determinism' and 'Libertarianism' and show that the failure to make these distinctions, or the neglect of them once they have been made, is the source of many confusions and fallacious reasonings. Following an analysis of some importantly different kinds of use of …
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Against moral unconditionalism
… (utilitarianism, divine command theory, and libertarianism, respectively). By criticizing their arguments for moral unconditionalism, I hope to show that moral unconditionalism is neither as justified nor as obvious as many people think it is, and that people ought to try to argue for moral …
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Building socialist broadcasting with Chinese characteristics : the substance and contradictions of China's broadcasting policy in the Reform Era (1978-1994)
… decentralization, and should be replaced by libertarianism so as to meet the people's demand for information and to regain its credibility
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Free Will and Meaningful Action: Expressions of the Self
… weak claims to origination (which all forms of libertarianism may share), and strong claims to origination, which I contend are secured by agent-causal libertarianism via control. I defend these claims by considering the popular luck objection. With it, I show how agent-causal commitments …
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A Scriptural Appraisal of the Necessary Connection between Progressive Sanctification and Compatibilist Freedom
… two most widely held models of human freedom: libertarianism and compatibilism. Compatibilism is shown to comport more closely with Scripture and to solve many of the nagging philosophical problems associated with a libertarian model of freedom. Chapter 3 continues to build a foundation for the …
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Capturing Elusive Metrics in Economics
… similarity analysis to interpret Mill's views on libertarianism, laissez-faire, socialism, and other economic concepts. These results are compared to existing scholarly debates over Mill's ideological consistency. Findings indicate that Mill maintained a consistent and positive view toward social …
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The science of social reasoning and decision making: foundations of a new social-liberal theory.
This study addresses the dialectic between two kinds of liberal political philosophy which have strongly influenced Western politics, and remain highly relevant to current debates – libertarian theory and social-liberal theory. In particular, it examines how representative theories on both sides …
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Liberty, peace, and friendliness: the political ideas of Auberon Herbert
The political ideas of Auberon Herbert are usually associated with the late Victorian Individualist thinkers primarily influenced by the philosopher Herbert Spencer. Although Herbert derived his political philosophy of Voluntaryism from Spencer’s thinking it also owed much to J. S. Mill. …