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Private Rights and Public Illusions

Title : Private Rights and Public Illusions
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Rating : 4.72 (940 Votes)
Asin : 1560001763
Format Type : paperback
Number of Pages : 420 Pages
Publish Date : 2013-10-08
Language : English

Robertson, Choice"Private Rights and Public Illusions is an excellent book providing an organizing principle for all thinking about the phenomenon of regulatory neo-socialism."—Peter Brimelow, Forbes . “Machan constructs a libertarian foundation for his case against the welfare state… The bibliography and the scholarship are impressive and appropriate for graduate students.”—D. B

Private Rights, Public Illusions combines empirical with philosophical analysis and argument. His discussion does not simply ride some ideological hobby horse—as so many in this area do—but is deeply concerned to ground its deliberations in a combined care for philosophical principles, empirical realities, and contemporary texts.". Because he sees the public realm as smaller than is generally believed, he argues that if government continues to intervene in affairs outside this public realm, then restrictions on individual liberties will become an obstacle to society's important progress. Machan asserts that while the exact nature of government is a complicated question, only a totalitarian government aims to assume responsibility for every possible concern of its citizenry. Its radical critique of government intervention will be of interest to policymakers, philosophers, and political scientists, and theorists.From the foreword by Nicholas Rescher, "Machan clearly sees that the state that protects is a state tha

Tibor Machan is professor of philosophy at Auburn University. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, and The Los Angeles Daily Journal. Nicholas Rescher is professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh.Nicholas Rescher, distinguished university professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, is currently chairman

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