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The right and wrong of compulsion by the state, and other essays / Auberon Herbert ; edited and with an introduction by Eric Mack.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Herbert, Auberon, 1838-1906.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Individualism.
- Liberty.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (425 pages) : portrait
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Indianapolis : Liberty Classics, 1978.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Auberon Herbert (1838-1906) is an eloquent, forceful, and uncompromising defender of liberty--indeed, in the judgment of Richard M. Ebeling he is "one of the most important and articulate advocates of liberty in the last two hundred years." Herbert was a major participant in the profound and wide-ranging intellectual ferment of the late Victorian age. He formulated a system of "thorough" individualism that he described as "voluntaryism." To Herbert, "you will not make people wiser and better by taking liberty of action from them. A man can learn only when he is free to act." As Eric Mack writes, "Carrying natural rights theory to its logical limits, Herbert demanded complete social and economic freedom for all noncoercive individuals and the radical restriction of the use of force to the role of protecting those freedoms--including the freedom of peaceful persons to withhold support from any or all state activities." There are ten essays. Please note: This title is available as an ebook for purchase on Amazon , Barnes and Noble , and iTunes .
- Contents:
- Introduction / Eric Mack
- Selective bibliography
- The choices between personal freedom and state protection
- State education: help or hindrance?
- A politician in sight of haven
- The right and wrong of compulsion by the state
- The ethics of dynamite
- Salvation by force
- Lost in the region of phrases
- Mr. Spencer and the great machine
- A plea for voluntaryism
- The principles of voluntaryism and free life
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 27-29) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-61487-809-9
- OCLC:
- 824698129
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