The Ethics of Liberty

The Ethics of Liberty......Page 1
Copyright......Page 3
Dedication......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 5
Introduction......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 41
Preface......Page 43
PART I: INTRODUCTION: NATURAL LAW......Page 46
1. Natural Law and Reason......Page 47
2. Natural Law as "Science"......Page 53
3. Natrual Law vs. Positive Law......Page 61
3. Natural Law and Natural Rights......Page 65
5. The Task of Political Philosophy......Page 69
PART II: A THEORY OF LIBERTY......Page 71
6. A Crusoe Social Philosophy......Page 72
7. Interpersonal Relations: Voluntary Exchange......Page 78
8. Interpersonal Relations: Ownership and Aggression......Page 87
9. Property and Criminality......Page 93
10. The Problem of Land Theft......Page 104
11. Land Monopoly, Past and Present......Page 109
12. Self-Defense......Page 116
13. Punishment and Proportionality......Page 124
14. Children and Rights......Page 136
15. "Human Rights" As Property Rights......Page 152
16. Knowledge, True and False......Page 160
17. Bribery......Page 168
18. The Boycott......Page 170
19. Property Rights and the Theory of Contracts......Page 172
20. Lifeboat Situations......Page 187
21. The "Rights" of Animals......Page 192
PART III: THE STATE VS. LIBERTY......Page 195
22. The Nature of the State......Page 196
23. The Inner Contradictions of the State......Page 210
24. The Moral Status of Relations to the State......Page 218
25. On Relations Between States......Page 224
PART IV: MODERN ALTERNATIVE THEORIES OF LIBERTY......Page 233
26. Utilitarian Free-Market Economics......Page 234
27. Isaiah Berlin on Negative Freedom......Page 248
28. F.A. Hayek and The Concept of Coercion......Page 252
29. Robert Nozick and the Immaculate Conception of the State......Page 263
PART V: TOWARD A THEORY OF STRATEGY FOR LIBERTY......Page 286
30. Toward a Theory of Strategy for Liberty......Page 287
Bibliography......Page 304
Index......Page 323