skip to content
Escape from leviathan : liberty, welfare, and anarchy reconciled Preview this item
ClosePreview this item
  • Preview this Item (Questia)

Escape from leviathan : liberty, welfare, and anarchy reconciled

Author: J C Lester
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Rating:

(not yet rated) 0 with reviews - Be the first.

 

Find a copy in the library

Retrieving... Finding libraries that hold this item...

Details

Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: J C Lester
ISBN: 0312234163 9780312234164 0333777565 9780333777565
OCLC Number: 43641157
Description: xi, 246 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: The Classical-Liberal Compatibility Thesis --
Why Moral Advocacy is Avoided --
A Critical-Rationalist Apologia --
Rationality --
Why Defend Aprioristic Instrumental Rationality? --
The Self and Its Interests --
Formal Definitions --
Freewill and Persons --
Weakness of Will or Meta-Desire? --
Desires versus Values? --
Self-Interest and Altruism --
The Logic of Altruism --
The Intentional Structure of Moral Sentiments --
Commitment, Motive-Stimuli, and Vacuousness --
Utility --
Utility-Maximization --
The Commensurability of One's Want-Satisfactions --
The Utility-Maximization of Categorical Morals --
Economic Demand --
Liberty --
Capturing the Conception --
Four Fundamental Criticisms of Minimizing Imposed Cost --
Libertarian Genocide? --
Impractically Unclear and Moralized? --
Mob Rule? --
A Typhoid Carrier --
A Critic of Religion --
Libertarian Utility Monsters? --
The Possibility of a Paretian Liberal --
Libertarians on 'Coercion' and 'Liberty' --
Observing Liberty in a State of Nature --
Self-Ownership and Property Derived Non-Morally --
Honesty, Promises, and Contracts --
Rectifying Libertarian Clashes --
Newcomers and Future Generations --
Intellectual Property --
A General Defense --
Some Criticisms from Libertarians --
More Philosophical Problems --
Exclusive Land Acquisition --
Restitution, Retribution, and Evidence --
'Torts' and 'Crimes' --
Can Wealth Levels Distort Rectification? --
Risk-Multiplier Rectification --
Consequentialism and Economics --
Refutations of Illiberalism.
Responsibility: J.C. Lester.
More information:

Reviews

User-contributed reviews
Retrieving weRead reviews...
Retrieving GoodReads reviews...
Retrieving Amazon reviews...

Tags

Be the first.

Similar Items

Confirm this request

You may have already requested this item. Please select Ok if you would like to proceed with this request anyway.

Close Window

Please sign in to WorldCat 

Don't have an account? You can easily create a free account.