In Defense of Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Defense of Freedom write by Frank S. Meyer. This book was released on 1962. In Defense of Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
In Defense of Freedom
In Defense of Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Defense of Freedom write by Frank S. Meyer. This book was released on 1962. In Defense of Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
In Defense of Freedom and Related Essays
In Defense of Freedom and Related Essays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Defense of Freedom and Related Essays write by Frank S. Meyer. This book was released on 1996. In Defense of Freedom and Related Essays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1962, "In Defense of Freedom" examines the tension between the freedom of the person and the power of social institutions. In Frank Meyer's view, both the dominant liberalism and the "New Conservatism" of the American tradition place undue emphasis on the claims of social order at the expense of the individual person and liberty. In addition, Meyer insists that liberty is essential to the pursuit of virtue. Therefore, to Meyer, the proper end of political thought and action is the establishment and preservation of freedom. This edition also includes nine related essays, among them "Libertarianism or Libertinism?", "Freedom, Tradition, Conservatism" and "In Defense of John Stuart Mill".
In Defense of Openness
In Defense of Openness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Defense of Openness write by Bas van der Vossen. This book was released on 2018-08-01. In Defense of Openness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The topic of global justice has long been a central concern within political philosophy and political theory, and there is no doubt that it will remain significant given the persistence of poverty on a massive scale and soaring global inequality. Yet, virtually every analysis in the vast literature of the subject seems ignorant of what developmental economists, both left and right, have to say about the issue. In Defense of Openness illuminates the problem by stressing that that there is overwhelming evidence that economic rights and freedom are necessary for development, and that global redistribution tends to hurt more than it helps. Bas van der Vossen and Jason Brennan instead ask what a theory of global justice would look like if it were informed by the facts that mainstream development and institutional economics have brought to light. They conceptualize global justice as global freedom and insist we can help the poor-and help ourselves at the same time-by implementing open borders, free trade, the strong protection of individual freedom, and economic rights and property for all around the world. In short, they work from empirical, consequentialist grounds to advocate for the market society as a model for global justice. A spirited challenge to mainstream political theory from two leading political philosophers, In Defense of Openness offers a new approach to global justice: We don't need to "save" the poor. The poor will save themselves, if we would only get out of their way and let them.
Authority and Freedom
Authority and Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Authority and Freedom write by Jed Perl. This book was released on 2022-01-11. Authority and Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From one of our most widely admired art critics comes a bold and timely manifesto reaffirming the independence of all the arts—musical, literary, and visual—and their unique and unparalleled power to excite, disturb, and inspire us. As people look to the arts to promote a particular ideology, whether radical, liberal, or conservative, Jed Perl argues that the arts have their own laws and logic, which transcend the controversies of any one moment. “Art’s relevance,” he writes, “has everything to do with what many regard as its irrelevance.” Authority and Freedom will find readers from college classrooms to foundation board meetings—wherever the arts are confronting social, political, and economic ferment and heated debates about political correctness and cancel culture. Perl embraces the work of creative spirits as varied as Mozart, Michelangelo, Jane Austen, Henry James, Picasso, and Aretha Franklin. He contends that the essence of the arts is their ability to free us from fixed definitions and categories. Art is inherently uncategorizable—that’s the key to its importance. Taking his stand with artists and thinkers ranging from W. H. Auden to Hannah Arendt, Perl defends works of art as adventuresome dialogues, simultaneously dispassionate and impassioned. He describes the fundamental sense of vocation—the engagement with the tools and traditions of a medium—that gives artists their purpose and focus. Whether we’re experiencing a poem, a painting, or an opera, it’s the interplay between authority and freedom—what Perl calls “the lifeblood of the arts”—that fuels the imaginative experience. This book will be essential reading for everybody who cares about the future of the arts in a democratic society.
