Political Philosophy, Clearly

Essays on Freedom and Fairness, Property and Equalities

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Autor(en)	Anthony de Jasay	Verlag	Liberty Fund, Inc.
Herausgeber	Hartmut Kliemt
Sachgebiet(e)	English Books, Radikalliberalismus, Philosophie	ISBN	978-0-86597-783-9
2010, 360 Seiten, Kartoniert

Anthony de Jasay, one of the most independent thinkers and influential libertarian political philosophers of our time, challenges the reigning paradigms justifying modern democratic government. The articles collected in Political Philosophy, Clearly delve deeply into the realm of political thought and philosophical criticism. A reader who is interested in a philosophical, yet clear, jargon-free account of such fundamental topics as the relationship between liberty and justice, the viability of limiting government, the role of property, and the possibilities of the private provision of public goods as well as the private enforcement of public rules will find reading this book rewarding. Most of the articles have been published before in a wide arrray of publications and are presented here for the first time in one volume.

The discussions in this work exhibit the antistatist line of thought that Jasay consistently pursues in all his writings. For Jasay, the provision of collective goods, including the most central one of social order itself, is much less dependent on the application of fundamental coercive power by centralized authorities than generally assumed. This idea echoes arguments he develops in detail in Social Contract, Free Ride.

Table of Contents

Introduction, by Hartmut Kliemt

PART1: DISBELIEF IN SOME FOND BELIEFS

• Government, Bound or Unbound?

• Parrot Talk: The Repetition of Common Fallacies

PART 2: LIBERTY AND JUSTICE

• When Fair Is Not Just and Just Is Not Fair 

• Fairness as Justice

• Justice, Luck, Liberty

• Social Justice Examined: With a Little Help from Adam Smith

• Pious Lies: The Justification of States and Welfare States

• To Each His Own, To Each the Same

PART 3: FREEDOM, PROPERTY, AND LOGIC

• Property and Its Enemies

• Permission, Prohibition, Presumption: Three Ps in Political Philosophy

• Between Colbert and Adam Smith

• Liberalism, Loose or Strict

• Freedoms, “Rights,” and Rights

• Freedom, from a Mainly Logical Perspective

PART 4: RULES AND THEIR ENFORCEMENT

• The Concept of Rule-Bound Collective Choice and the Idea of Constitutional Safeguards

• The Private Enforcement of Public Rules

• Antitrust and Its “Private” Enforcement: A Liberal Perspective

• Violence: The Disease and the Vaccine

PART 5: ORTHODOXY, TRUE AND FALSE

• The Public Interest and the Usual Suspects

• Public Goods and Their Spontaneous Provision

• Take or Leave? 

• Property Under “Jungle Law”

Index

Source: Liberty Fund, Inc.