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Murray Rothbard (1926-1995) was an economist, historian,
philosopher, and legal theoretician. His work was unified by a
passionate and resolute commitment to a libertarianism that may be
characterized as 'anarcho-capitalism' and which implied a belief
that even the legal system may be provided privately without the
need for a coercive collective authority. Hence,
anarcho-capitalists envisage a society where the traditional role
of government is wholly subsumed by private, profit-making
enterprises and all social relationships are ultimately founded
upon consent. Rothbard's unique intellectual contribution was to
build this system of thought from many pre-existing but previously
disparate strands and to develop it to its logical conclusion.
Rothbard's starting points were the notions of methodological
individualism, natural rights theory, and individual
self-ownership. He showed that if we wish these seriously then the
justification for government falls away. According to Rothbard
government can only be 'justified' if we abandon the notion that
individuals have the right to determine what to do with their own
bodies, a step he believed to be unconscionable.
This is a defence of libertarian anarchy, presenting a novel
perspective on political philosophy and a history of the concept of
anarchy. Political philosophy is dominated by a myth, the myth of
the necessity of the state. The state is considered necessary for
the provision of many things, but primarily for peace and security.
In this provocative book, Gerard Casey argues that social order can
be spontaneously generated, that such spontaneous order is the norm
in human society and that deviations from the ordered norms can be
dealt with without recourse to the coercive power of the state.
Casey presents a novel perspective on political philosophy, arguing
against the conventional political philosophy pieties and defending
a specific political position, which he identifies as 'libertarian
anarchy'. The book includes a history of the concept of anarchy, an
examination of the possibility of anarchic societies and an
articulation of the nature of law and order within such societies.
Casey presents his specific form of anarchy, undergirded by a
theory of human action that prioritises liberty, as a
philosophically and politically viable alternative to the standard
positions in political theory. "Think Now" is a new series of books
which examines central contemporary social and political issues
from a philosophical perspective. These books aim to be accessible,
rather than overly technical, bringing philosophical rigour to
modern questions which matter the most to us. Provocative yet
engaging, the authors take a stand on political and cultural themes
of interest to any intelligent reader.
This is a defence of libertarian anarchy, presenting a novel
perspective on political philosophy and a history of the concept of
anarchy. Political philosophy is dominated by a myth, the myth of
the necessity of the state. The state is considered necessary for
the provision of many things, but primarily for peace and security.
In this provocative book, Gerard Casey argues that social order can
be spontaneously generated, that such spontaneous order is the norm
in human society and that deviations from the ordered norms can be
dealt with without recourse to the coercive power of the state.
Casey presents a novel perspective on political philosophy, arguing
against the conventional political philosophy pieties and defending
a specific political position, which he identifies as 'libertarian
anarchy'. The book includes a history of the concept of anarchy, an
examination of the possibility of anarchic societies and an
articulation of the nature of law and order within such societies.
Casey presents his specific form of anarchy, undergirded by a
theory of human action that prioritizes liberty, as a
philosophically and politically viable alternative to the standard
positions in political theory. "Think Now" is a new series of books
which examines central contemporary social and political issues
from a philosophical perspective. These books aim to be accessible,
rather than overly technical, bringing philosophical rigour to
modern questions which matter the most to us. Provocative yet
engaging, the authors take a stand on political and cultural themes
of interest to any intelligent reader.
Volume 15 in the "Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers"
series focuses on the American Economist, Murray Rothbard. Murray
Rothbard (1926-1995) was an economist, historian, philosopher, and
legal theoretician. His work was unified by a passionate and
resolute commitment to a libertarianism that may be characterized
as 'anarcho-capitalism' and which implied a belief that even the
legal system may be provided privately without the need for a
coercive collective authority. Hence, anarcho-capitalists envisage
a society where the traditional role of government is wholly
subsumed by private, profit-making enterprises and all social
relationships are ultimately founded upon consent. Rothbard's
unique intellectual contribution was to build this system of
thought from many pre-existing but previously disparate strands and
to develop it to its logical conclusion. Rothbard's starting points
were the notions of methodological individualism, natural rights
theory, and individual self-ownership. He showed that if we wish
these seriously then the justification for government falls away.
According to Rothbard government can only be 'justified' if we
abandon the notion that individuals have the right to determine
what to do with their own bodies, a step he believed to be
unconscionable. "Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers"
provides comprehensive accounts of the works of seminal
conservative thinkers from a variety of periods, disciplines, and
traditions - the first series of its kind. Even the selection of
thinkers adds another aspect to conservative thinking, including
not only theorists but also writers and practitioners. The series
comprises twenty volumes, each including an intellectual biography,
historical context, critical exposition of the thinker's work,
reception and influence, contemporary relevance, bibliography
including references to electronic resources, and an index.
Night Horizons includes correspondence between the religious and
philosophical poet and thinker Gerard Casey and his wife Mary
(author of The Kingfisher's Wing and Clear Shadow) and also his
brother Patrick. Also included are essays on Jacob Boehme, Sri
Ramana Maharshi, and other meditations. The extraordinary
correspondence between Gerard and Mary Casey has no equivalent
other than that between Heloise and Abelard in the Middle Ages.
The capacity for reasonable argument about practical and political
matters is important to our daily lives. Yet what does arguing
really involve? Often, our very concept of what it is to argue
seems systematically distorted. Practical, political arguing is too
often stylized as hyper-cognitive, ending by treating people as
objects rather than other selves - in ways that are fundamentally
unreasonable. This book examines what follows from seeing people as
deliberating and acting in ways that intertwine a variety of
emotional and evaluative processes and effects of virtue or
character. From this point of view, practical arguing involves not
just cognition, emotion, and virtue, but also practices, including
imaginative practices. Politics of Practical Reasoning: Integrating
Action, Discourse and Argument uses these ideas to interrogate ways
in which reasoning is bound up with the interrelated lives that
human beings lead in their everyday, public and political worlds.
We build here on efforts to re-concretize practical reasoning in
modern traditions linked to phenomenology and Wittgensteinian
thought, also referring back to Aristotle and the Stoics in
classical times. Medieval theologians and philosophers such as
Aquinas confront the same issue, as do Enlightenment thinkers such
as Smith and Kant. Using the history of philosophical thought as
one of our major sources, the contributors sympathize with the link
underscored between interpretation, tradition and reasoning by
Gadamer, the stress placed on communicative and emancipatory action
by Habermas, and MacIntyre's notion of praxis as highlighting
deliberation within communities. All these approaches respond to
practical reasoning as practical. Building on these points of view,
the volume both explores what practical reasoning itself means, and
applies it to particular questions: what it means to respond to
arguments about meaningful work or disability, or how to debate
institutional ethics or art. None of these debates is susceptible
to exclusively cognitive or technical solutions; this does not mean
abandoning them to unreason. Practical and political reasoning is
examined here from an appropriately broad spectrum of approaches,
founded in a concern for what human reasoning can justifiably be
expected to involve, and what justifying it can reasonably be
expected to achieve.
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