All Posts Tagged With: "human rights"
Property: Key to Self-Determination
Private property is at the center of the freedom philosophy. It has been said that all human rights are ultimately property rights. It has been said that the right to life is a property right in one’s person. It has been said that without property rights, the right to life is an empty idea. Yet [...]
1Dec1997 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedCommunitarians and Slavery
Dr. Machan, who teaches political philosophy and business ethics, is the author of Private Rights and Public Illusions (Transaction Books, 1995). He is at work writing books on generosity, individualism, and business-bashing A recent report in the New York Times tells how in Ghana many preteen girls are subjected to slavery, supposedly to atone for [...]
1Jul1997 | Tibor R. Machan | 0 comments | ContinuedFree Trade and Human Rights in China
James A. Dorn is vice president for academic affairs at the Cato Institute. This essay is a condensed version of his article in the Spring/Summer 1996 Cato Journal. The best way to promote human rights around the world is to promote free trade. Trade liberalization improves ties among nations, increases their wealth, and advances civil [...]
1May1997 | James A. Dorn | 3 comments | ContinuedRights, Freedom, and Rivalry
Dr. Baird is director of the Smith Center, California State University, Hayward, and this month’s guest editor. The idea for this paper came out of a conversation the author recently had with Dwight Lee of the University of Georgia (see pp. 663-666). A conversation with Dwight Lee is always fruitful. Packaging counts. This maxim of [...]
1Oct1996 | Charles W. Baird | 0 comments | ContinuedRights versus "Rights"
Dr. Machan is Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University, Alabama. His latest book is Private Rights and Public Illusions, from Transaction Books. He is a contributing editor of The Freeman. For the past 200 years or so a debate has ensued in political philosophy, on the issue of what sorts of rights human beings have. [...]
1May1995 | Tibor R. Machan | 0 comments | ContinuedEco-Fascism
Mr. Madden is an instructor in communication at Mt. Mercy College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The violations of private property rights that have flowed from the environmental movement and its adherence to the erroneous theory of “intrinsic value” have already caused intense hardships for many people. Individuals have been prevented from developing their land as [...]
1Apr1995 | Russell Madden | 0 comments | ContinuedAmerica: An Adventure in Seven Live Ideas
Dr. Evans, professor, philosopher, poet, lecturer, died in 1954. This article is condensed from an unpublished manuscript. When our indomitable Founding Fathers crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the eastern shores of the Western Hemisphere, they brought a cargo of five live ideas: • The Greek Idea: The Primacy of Reason • [...]
1Sep1956 | Edwin Barlow Evans | 1 comment | ContinuedNatural Laws of Human Relations
Mr. Bateman is a Vice-president and Director 05 Anderson, Utayton & uom2aany. Human relations, like science, are bound by certain inexorable laws which men violate at their own risk. Even demagogues and dictators respect the natural laws of science. Yet all of us to some degree fail to have equal respect for the natural laws [...]
1Aug1956 | Dupuy Bateman Jr. | 0 comments | Continued-
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