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The Freedom of Peaceful Action


The Freedom of Peaceful Action

On the Origin of Individual Rights

von: Stuart K. Hayashi

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Verlag: Lexington Books
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 23.04.2014
ISBN/EAN: 9780739186671
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 696

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<span><span>The Freedom of Peaceful Action</span><span> is the first installment of the trilogy </span><span>The Nature of Liberty</span><span>, which makes an ethical philosophic case for individual liberty and the free market against calls for greater government regulation and control. The trilogy makes a purely secular and nonreligious ethical case for the individual’s rights to life, liberty, private property, and the pursuit of happiness as championed by the U.S. Founding Fathers. Inspired by such philosophic defenders of free enterprise as John Locke, Herbert Spencer, and Ayn Rand, </span><span>The Nature of Liberty</span><span> shows that such individual rights are not imaginary or simply assertions, but are institutions of great practical value, making prosperity and happiness possible to the degree that society recognizes them. The trilogy demonstrates the beneficence of the individual-rights approach by citing important findings in the emerging science of evolutionary psychology. Although the conclusions of evolutionary psychology have been long considered to be at odds with the philosophies of individual liberty and free markets, </span><span>The Nature of Liberty</span><span> presents a reconciliation that reveals their ultimate compatibility, as various important findings of evolutionary psychology, being logically applied, confirm much of what philosophic defenders of liberty have been saying for centuries. Moreover, proceeding from the viewpoint of Rand, this work argues that the structure of society most conducive to practical human well-being is commensurately the most moral and humane approach as well.</span></span>
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<span><span>The trilogy’s first installment, </span><span>The Freedom of Peaceful Action</span><span>, focuses on the secular, philosophic foundation for a society based on individual rights. Starting from a defense of the efficacy of observational reason against criticisms from Immanuel Kant and Karl Popper, it demonstrates how a philosophic position of individual liberty and free markets is the logical result of the consistent application of human reason to observing human nature. This installment demonstrates that any political system that wishes for its citizens to thrive must take human nature into account, and that an accounting of human nature reveals that a system of maximum liberty and property protection is the one must conducive to peace and human well-being. </span></span>
<span><span>The </span><span>Nature of Liberty</span><span> trilogy presents an ethical case for individual liberty, arguing from the philosophy of Ayn Rand and citing the findings of evolutionary psychology to demonstrate the compatibility between human nature and laissez-faire liberty. The first installment, </span><span>The Freedom of Peaceful Action</span><span>, makes the philosophic case that an approach starting from observational reason will indicate the practicality and ethical desirability of a free-market system based on rights. </span></span>
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<span>TABLE OF CONTENTS</span>
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<td width="530"><span><span>Acknowledgments</span><span><br></span><span>Preface</span><span><br>Part One—Inductive Reason: The Only Oracle of Man<br>Ch. 1. Why Free-Market Advocates Need Objectivist Metaphysics and Rationally Inductive Epistemology <br>Ch. 2. Inductive Reason<br>Ch. 3. The Unity of Reality <br>Ch. 4. Coming to Our Senses<br>Ch. 5. Ascertaining Causal Connections<br>Ch. 6. Absolving Absolutes from Ridicule<br>Ch. 7. Contextual Absolutes <br>Ch. 8. The Biological Basis of Morality<br>Part Two—The Anatomy of Political Organization<br>Ch. 9. The Rule of Peace<br>Ch. 10. Reclaiming Liberalism<br>Ch. 11. The Swarm of Voters<br>Ch. 12. “The State of Nature” and the Nature of the State<br>Ch. 13. The Invisible Gun<br>Ch. 14. Regulation as Spoliation <br>Ch. 15. Contracts, Real Versus Imaginary<br>Ch. 16. By Definition, You Cannot Consent to Being Taxed Coercively<br>Ch. 17. The Contractual Financing of the Ideal State<br>Ch. 18. The Peaceful Sector and the Violence Sector <br>Ch. 19. </span><span>GOD</span><span>vernment<br>Ch. 20. The Revolution Will Be Privatized<br>Ch. 21. The Most Vital Privatization<br>Ch. 22. Savage Predation Against Self-Ownership<br>Ch. 23. Applying the Principles of Self-Ownership<br></span><span>Bibliography</span><span><br></span></span><br></td>
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<span><span>Stuart K. Hayashi has worked at the Hawaii State Capitol as a legislative analyst and aide in the governor’s office and both legislative houses.</span></span>

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