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Rights Angles (Hardcover)
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Rights Angles (Hardcover)
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Loren Lomasky is a leading advocate of a rights-based libertarian
approach to political and social issues. This volume collects
fifteen of his articles that have appeared since his influential
volume Persons, Rights, and the Moral Community (OUP, 1987)
alongside one new essay. The volume represents Lomasky's more
recent efforts at constructing the underpinnings of liberal rights
theory, in which he formulates a series of questions about the
nature and scope of rights and rights holders. Among the questions
Lomasky addresses: In what way is classical utilitarianism
fundamentally illiberal? To what extent might utilitarian
cost-benefit analyses be admissible within rights-upholding
political theory? Does it even make sense to speak of maximizing
liberty? How can this be understood in Hobbesian, Kantian, and
Rawlsian theoretical settings? In a world in which rights-talk is
ubiquitous, what is the role of traditional virtues such as loyalty
and charity? Is it inconsistent to espouse both an austere
classical liberalism and a social safety net? Liberalism is most
often presented as a theory about the internal contours of the
state, but how does it speak to the relationships between one state
and another? Between the state and would-be immigrants? In a world
displaying massive cross-border inequalities, does justice require
the extension of aid from the rich to the poor? The book opens with
an unpublished essay, "Everything Old is New Again: The Death and
Rebirth of Classical Liberalism," which features a history of the
century-long decline of traditional liberalism and its remarkable,
unanticipated return to vitality in the second half of the 20th
century. It then offers the prospectus for a libertarian research
program for the next half century. "Lomasky is one of the most
brilliant political philosophers of his generation and also has a
great gift with the pen. He instead picks away at bad arguments and
bad rhetoric whether in general agreement with his priors or not.
And he likes to entertain unusual twists on arguments. The upshot
is a wonderful journey through deep questions in political
philosophy and organization. "-Peter Boettke, University Professor
of Economics & Philosophy, George Mason University
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