Archive for Roderick T. Long
Herbert Spencer: Libertarian Prophet
At the time of his death a century ago, the English social theorist Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was widely considered one of the most significant thinkers of his era, a scholar of encyclopedic learning and enormous vision whose works formed a regular part of university curricula in philosophy and the social sciences. Today he is seldom [...]
7Jul2010 | Roderick T. Long | 5 comments | ContinuedLiberty: The Other Equality
Equality is an ideal upheld by a number of ideologies,
but nowadays it is seldom associated with
libertarianism or classical liberalism. Indeed, both
libertarians and their critics typically think of equality as
an ideal in tension with the ideal of liberty as libertarians
understand it.
Robert Nozick, Philosopher of Liberty
Twenty-eight years ago a Harvard philosophy professor named Robert Nozick did something unthinkable in polite intellectual society: he published a book defending libertarianism. In 1974 libertarian ideas had virtually no presence within the academic establishment. Free-market economists F. A. Hayek and Milton Friedman had not yet won their Nobel prizes (Hayek’s would come later that [...]
1Sep2002 | Roderick T. Long | 25 comments | Continued-
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