Literature of Liberty, January/March 1979, vol. 2, No. 1

Literature of Liberty: A Review of Contemporary Liberal Thought was published first by the Cato Institute (1978-1979) and later by the Institute for Humane Studies (1980-1982) under the editorial direction of Leonard P. Liggio. It consisted of a lengthy bibliographical essays, editorials, and many shorter reviews of books and journal articles. There were 5 volumes and 20 issues. This issue contains a lengthy bibliographical essay by Robert A. Nisbet on “The Idea of Progress.”
Literature of Liberty: A Review of Contemporary Liberal Thought was published first by the Cato Institute (1978-1979) and later by the Institute for Humane Studies (1980-1982) under the editorial direction of Leonard P. Liggio.
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Table of Contents
- Literature of Liberty A Review of Contemporary Liberal Thought
- Editorial Staff
- Associate Editors
- Editorial
- Bibliographical Essay The Idea Of Progress
- Confusion Over the Meanings of Progress
- Progress as an Ancient Idea
- Classical Antiquity and the Idea of Progress
- Greek Poets, Sophists, and Historians on Progress
- Roman Philosophers on Progress
- Christianity and the Idea of Progress
- The Augustinian Legacy: Stages of Historical Development
- Joachim of Fiore and the Millennialist Legacy of Progress
- The Seventeenth Century Battle of the Books: The Ancients vs. The Moderns
- The Case For and Against the Moderns and Progress
- Turgot and the Christian Legacy of Progress
- The Eighteenth-Century Views of Progress
- Germany
- England and Scotland
- France: Rousseau and Condorcet
- America
- The Nineteenth Century's View of Progress
- France: Auguste Comte
- Germany: Hegel and Marx
- England: J.S. Mill and Spencer
- America
- Nineteenth Century Skeptics of Progress
- The Dark Side of Progress: Power, Nationalism, and Racism
- The Fate of Progress in the Twentieth Century
- The Early Twentieth Century's Faith in Progress
- Current Skepticism on the Idea of Progress
- The Prospects for Progress
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- I: Progress
- Godwin: Flux vs. Stasis
- Progress, Naturalism, and Religion
- Individualism vs. Peasant-feudalism
- Materialism, Determinism, and Progress
- Popperian Growth of Knowledge
- Popper vs. Historicism
- Koestler: Chance vs. Reason
- Social Engineering for Progress
- Progress in Economics
- II: Autonomy
- Mental Health Law and Autonomy
- Sexual Repression vs. Autonomy
- Medical Paternalism vs. Autonomy
- Deschooling and Autonomy
- Education and Family Autonomy
- State Paternalism vs. Family
- Teaching vs. Student Autonomy
- Privacy in Social Psychology
- Autonomy vs. Extrinsic Rewards
- Job Autonomy vs. Contract
- Student Press and Autonomy
- Mercenaries and Autonomy
- Autonomy, Creativity, and Radicalism
- III: Law and Public Policy
- Law without Justice?
- Blackstone vs. Bentham on Law
- Evolving Jurisprudence
- Is Bankruptcy Law Bankrupt?
- Reviewing Judicial Review
- The Supreme Court and the Law
- Courts and Social Science Evidence
- The Goals of the First Amendment
- Freedom of Scientific Inquiry
- Protection of Dissenting Belief
- Law vs. “Liberty” and “Property”
- Crime Demographics and Law
- Is Legal Punishment Good?
- Punishment and Behavior Modification
- Punishment vs. Pure Restitution
- Does Punishment Fit the Crime?
- Free Market Justice
- Justice in the Market
- IV: Equality and Social Justice
- Liberty vs. Equality
- Liberty and Equality
- Bureaucracy and the New Equality
- Policy and the “New Equality”
- Rawls and the New Equality
- Rawls vs. Nozick on Justice
- Balancing Needs and Abilities
- Nozick and the Lockean Proviso
- Schooling and Subordination
- Educational Equality
- Adam Smith on Social Justice
- De Tocqueville and Equality
- Liberal Justice: From Merit to Need
- INDEX
- Authors
- Research Fields
- Economics
- Education
- History
- Law
- Philosophy
- Philosophy of Science
- Political Philosophy
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Sociology
- STUDIES IN ECONOMICTHEORY
- THE ECONOMIC POINT OF VIEW: An Essay in the History of Economic Thought
- THE ULTIMATE FOUNDATION OF ECONOMIC SCIENCE: An Essay on Method