Literature of Liberty, October/December 1978, vol. 1, No. 4

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 Henry Veatch on “Natural Law: Dead or Alive?”
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
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- The Roots of Capitalism
- The Wisdom of Adam Smith
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- Literature of Liberty A Review of Contemporary Liberal Thought
- Editorial Staff
- Associate Editors
- Editorial
- Bibliographical Essay
- Natural Law: Dead or Alive?
- How “Natural Law” Should Be Understood: The Thomistic View of the Objective Grounding of Ethical Standards
- The Art of Living Based on Objective Nature and Reason
- Grotius and the Secularization of Natural Law
- From Natural Law to Natural Rights: Is It a Shift in Emphasis or Principle?
- The Rational Justification of Human Goals: The “Naturally Right” us. “Natural Rights”
- Revolution in Natural Law: Hobbesian “Natural” Rights as Subjective Desires
- The Problem with Natural Rights: Are They Natural, and Do They Have Any Foundation at All?
- Why Are Natural Inclinations Natural “Rights”?
- Theories of Human Rights: Their Decline and Fall in the Nineteenth Century and Their Dramatic Rise and Resurgence Today
- Natural Rights Assaulted: Historicism and Positivism
- Consequences of Nineteenth Century Rejection of Natural Law: Utilitarianism
- Rawls, Dworkin, and Nozick: Criticisms of Utilitarianism and Positivism
- What if Rights Theories Can Only Draw Sustenance from Natural Law Theories?
- How Can We Salvage Contemporary Rights Theory and Rehabilitate Natural Law?
- Reviving Natural Law: Bridging Facts and Values and Formulating a New View of Nature
- FOOTNOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SUGGESTIONS
- Some of the Major Sources of Natural Law Doctrines, Medieval and Modern
- Some of the Classical References on Utilitarianism (any edition)
- Some Recent and Contemporary Treatments of Natural Law and Related Topics
- I: Natural Law
- “Nature” and “Law” in Natural Law
- The Anatomy of Natural Rights
- Egoism and Rights
- The Is/Ought Chimera
- Deriving “Ought” from “Is”
- Facts vs. Value-laden Whims
- Is/Ought and Probable Reasons
- Does Righteous Anger Imply Rights?
- Why Be Moral?
- Truth as an Objective Value
- Was the Revolution Objectively Necessary?
- Natural Law and State of Nature
- Natural Law and the State
- Natural Rights and Anarchism
- Dworkin on Rights
- Liberalism, Rights, and Abortion
- Rights and “Mercy Killing”
- Rights and the “Brain Drain”
- The Natural Law Right to Work
- Grotius: Contract and Natural Law
- Rights and Communication
- II: Autonomy, Privacy, and Authority
- Bureaucracy and “The Organization Man”
- Autonomy and Anarchism
- Autonomy and Taking Responsibility
- Autonomy, Motivation, and “Buck-Passing”
- Schooling for Conformity
- The Schoolroom vs. Autonomy
- Obedience to Authority
- The Meaning of Privacy
- Privacy and Autonomy
- Privacy and Consent
- The Court and Privacy
- III: The Ambiguities of Liberty
- Clarifying Freedom
- Rehabilitating Mill's “Harm Principle”
- Experiencing Freedom
- Do Offers Coerce Freedom?
- The Danger of “Dangerousness”
- Freedom, Motivation, and Government Programs
- Freedom vs. Determinism
- Negative vs. Positive Freedom
- Smith and Utilitarian Economic Freedom
- Locke, Freedom, and Tacit Consent
- Religious Freedom
- Freedom, Existentialism, and Innocent Victims
- Does Censorship Harm Freedom?
- IV: Slavery
- Slavery, Ideology, and Subordination
- Slavery and Imperialist Ideology
- Enlightenment Liberalism vs. Slavery
- The Anatomy of a Slave Revolt
- Colonial American Slave Law
- Jefferson on Slavery
- Slavery and the Poor
- V: Planning
- Regulation and the Warfare State
- Mail, Privacy, and Social Control
- Corporate State Capitalism: Coal
- French War “Planification”: Chlorates
- Bureaucracy and British Regulation
- British Foreign Policy and Stagnation
- Political Decisions and the Economy
- Government, Labor, and Multinationals
- Black Markets vs. Regulation
- Regulation vs. Academic Autonomy
- Government Schools and Social Control
- The Economics of Charity
- International State Planning and Inflation
- Competition and Individual Knowledge
- Index
- Authors
- CUMMULATIVE INDEX, VOL. I
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- Law
- Philosophy
- Philosophy of Science
- Political Philosophy
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Sociology
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- CAPITAL, EXPECTATIONS, AND THE MARKET PROCESS: Essays on the Theory of the Market Economy
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