Archive for Edmund A. Opitz
The Philosophy of Ludwig von Mises
The late Reverend Mr. Opitz was a long-time member of the staff of The Foundation for Economic Education. This article appears here, by permission, from a lecture of February 26,1980 at Grove City College as part of a series in tribute to Ludwig von Mises and his work. An invitation to speak at Grove City [...]
1Jul1980 | Edmund A. Opitz | 1 comment | ContinuedThinking About Economics
Concerning the connections between freedom of the marketplace and liberties of the mind.
1May1979 | Edmund A. Opitz | 0 comments | ContinuedHumane Values and the Free Economy
How well does a free economy serve our higher ends?
1Jun1978 | Edmund A. Opitz | 0 comments | ContinuedConstitutional Restraints on Power
Government is the power structure that free men are obliged to restrain.
1Apr1978 | Edmund A. Opitz | 0 comments | ContinuedNo Continuing City: The Paradox of a Christian Society
Dislocations on the political and economic level cannot be cured at that level, because they stem from a malady rooted on the spiritual level.
1Feb1978 | Edmund A. Opitz | 1 comment | ContinuedZero Population Growth Versus The Free Society
A government empowered to fully control all our lives would crush the individual.
1Oct1977 | Edmund A. Opitz | 0 comments | ContinuedFreedom and Majority Rule
Concerning the limited role of government in a free society and the election of officers.
1Jan1977 | Edmund A. Opitz | 0 comments | ContinuedAdam Smith and the Invisible Hand
In 1776 Adam Smith provided a rationale for freedom of economic action.
1Jun1976 | Edmund A. Opitz | 2 comments | ContinuedLiberalism Used to Mean Freedom
Power is not liberty; liberty operates in another dimension and has other requirements.
1Dec1975 | Edmund A. Opitz | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Nobility of the Bourgeoisie
Some reasons why the market economy best serves the human condition.
1Oct1975 | Edmund A. Opitz | 0 comments | ContinuedWhy Do "They" Turn to Socialism?
Some explanations of the current drift to the Left and suggestions for ways to restore freedom.
1Jul1975 | Edmund A. Opitz | 0 comments | ContinuedReligion and the Free Economy
Freedom needs a world view which makes mind central and gives truth its proper place.
1May1975 | Edmund A. Opitz | 0 comments | ContinuedSocialism
Socialism promises to distribute abundance but is at a loss as to how to produce it.
1Mar1974 | Edmund A. Opitz | 0 comments | ContinuedOur Disordered Lives
The Colonists had won a war and, desiring to set up a republican form of government, they installed a Constitution designed to limit the public authority and thus maximize personal liberty. Now that they were free, what did these early Americans do with their newly won liberty? For one thing, they worked. They had to [...]
1Nov1973 | Edmund A. Opitz | 0 comments | ContinuedOur Disordered Lives
When a nation goes astray, the corrective is to be sought within the individual.
1Jul1973 | Edmund A. Opitz | 0 comments | ContinuedStubborn Facts and Hard Heads
The sooner we recognize that there are unchanging rules of life, the easier for us to enter into it.
1May1973 | Edmund A. Opitz | 0 comments | ContinuedSix Ideas to Keep Us Human (Part II)
How free will, rationality, self-responsibility, beauty, goodness, and a sense of the sacred may restore man.
1Dec1972 | Edmund A. Opitz | 0 comments | Continued-
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