Archive for John Hospers
Unintended Consequences by John Ross
Accurate Press • 1996 • 861 pages • $28.95 John Hospers is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Southern California. Unintended Consequences by John Ross is an 850-page novel whose central theme is the unintended consequences of seemingly beneficent actions and policies. The author cites historical parallels—the murder of the Austrian heir apparent [...]
1Jan1998 | John Hospers | 0 comments | ContinuedSpeaking Freely
To be a moral agent, wrote Milton in his Areopagitica, a person must be free to choose; and to make moral choices persons must be free to express their opinions. Milton held, writes Calvin Massey in this anthology, “that by tolerating abhorrent and hateful speech, we are able to see more clearly our societal biases [...]
1Sep1995 | John Hospers | 0 comments | ContinuedRegulation and Productivity
People don’t enjoy having their lives regulated, whether they are children rebelling against parental commands or adults whose actions are subject to legislation by government. Still, don’t we need regulators with coercive power such as only government has? What would happen if everyone could, without penalty, forge checks, violate contracts, dump poisonous wastes into the [...]
1Jul1994 | John Hospers | 0 comments | ContinuedThe American Educational Establishment, 1993
John Hospers is professor of philosophy (emeritus) at the University of Southern California, and author of numerous books, including Human Conduct, Understanding the Arts, and Introduction to Philosophical Analysis. After seventy years, Communism is in eclipse in Eastern Europe. The career of the Total State, planned and carried out by Lenin and implemented by Stalin [...]
1Dec1993 | John Hospers | 0 comments | ContinuedPrivate Property and the Environment: Two Views
Editor’s Note: In the May 1988 issue of The Freeman we published John Hospers’ review of Property Rights and Eminent Domain by Ellen Frankel Paul. In the following essays, Jane S. Shaw and John Hospers exchange views on some issues raised in that review. Jane S. Shaw: People concerned about freedom recognize the importance of [...]
1Jan1989 | Jane S. Shaw | 1 comment | ContinuedProperty Rights and Eminent Domain
John Hospers is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California and editor of The Monist. He is the author of numerous books and articles on aesthetics, ethics, and political philosophy. Ellen Frankel Paul’s Property Rights and Eminent Domain is an exemplary work of both historical scholarship and creative thought. It is a [...]
1May1988 | John Hospers | 0 comments | ContinuedA Visit to South Africa
John Hospers is a professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California. Los Angeles. He is the author of numerous books, several anthologies, and more than one hundred essays in journals and encyclopedias. This article recounts experiences from Professor Hospers’ six-week stay in South Africa last summer. The media create a [...]
1Feb1987 | John Hospers | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Equality and Liberty: A Defense of Radical Egalitarianism by Kai Nielsen
Rowman & Allanheld, Totowa, NJ 07512 • 1985 • 320 pages, $27.50 cloth Equality of consideration, equality before the law, equality in human dignity or worth, are discussed by this author, but they are not the distinctive thrust of the book. The main thesis is that every individ-ual-or every family, one isn’t always sure which [...]
1Jan1986 | John Hospers | 0 comments | ContinuedJustice versus Social Justice
John Hospers is a professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He is the author of numerous books, such as Human Conduct, Understanding the Arts, and Introduction to Philosophical Analysis, as well as several anthologies and more than one hundred essays in journals and encyclopedias. He is president of the American [...]
1Jan1985 | John Hospers | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Meanings of Freedom
John Hospers is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He was the first Libertarian Party candidate for the presidency of the United States (1972). He is the editor of the philosophical magazine. The Monist. His moat recent books are Understanding the Arts (Prentice-Hall) and Human Conduct [...]
1Sep1984 | John Hospers | 0 comments | ContinuedFreedom and Democracy
John Hospers is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He was the first Libertarian Party candidate for the presidency of the United States (1972). He is the editor of the philosophical magazine, The Monist. His most recent books are Understanding the Arts (Prentice-Hall) and Human Conduct [...]
1Jun1984 | John Hospers | 0 comments | ContinuedFreedom and Utopias
John Hospers is a professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California, and editor of the philosophical magazine, The Monist. He is the author of two recent books, Understanding the Arts (Prentice-Hall) and Human Conduct (Harcourt Brace). He was the Libertarian Party’s first candidate for U.S. president in 1972, receiving one electoral vote. He [...]
1Sep1983 | John Hospers | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Academy Versus The Market Place
Dr. Hospers is a professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California. He was the first Libertarian Party candidate for president of the United States (1972). His most recent books are Understanding the Arts (Prentice-Hall 1982) and Human Conduct (Harcourt Brace 1982). Workers and the Market That the majority of the workers of America [...]
1Jun1983 | John Hospers | 0 comments | ContinuedRothbards Liberty Reviewed
Dr. Hospers was the first Libertarian Party candidate for President of the U.S. (1972). He is the author of (among others) two recent books, Understanding the Arts (Prentice-Hall, 1982) and Human Conduct (Harcourt Brace, 1982). The long-awaited capstone to Professor Murray Rothbard’s series of books on political economy has at last appeared. His earlier two-volume [...]
1Aug1982 | John Hospers | 1 comment | ContinuedOn Being Equal
Dr. Hospers is Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Let’s suppose we all start out equally, say with $1000. How long would this equality last? Some people would spend the whole thousand the same day and be penniless by nightfall. Others would spend it in a week, others in a month. Still others would put the money to work: in [...]
1Dec1977 | John Hospers | 1 comment | Continued-
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