Liberty Or Equality The Challenge Of Our Time
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Liberty Or Equality
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Author : Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
language : en
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Release Date : 2007
Liberty Or Equality written by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn and has been published by Ludwig von Mises Institute this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Political Science categories.
Sometime in the 18th century, the word equality gained ground as a political ideal, but the idea was always vague. In this treatise, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn argues that it reduced to one simple and very dangerous idea: equality of political power as embodied in democracy. He marshals the strongest possible case that democratic equality is the very basis not of liberty, as is commonly believed, but the total state. He uses national socialism as his prime example. He further argues the old notion of government by law is upheld in old monarchies, restrained by a noble elite. Aristocracy, not democracy, gave us liberty. On his side in this argument, he includes the whole of the old liberal tradition, and offers overwhelming evidence for his case. In our times, war and totalitarianism do indeed sail under the democratic flag. This book, capable of overturning most of what you thought you knew about political systems, was first published in 1952.
Liberty Or Equality
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Author : Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-06
Liberty Or Equality written by Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06 with Philosophy categories.
In Liberty or Equality, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn first examines the historical and current meanings of both democracy and liberalism, demonstrating why the two do not necessarily coincide. He then puts forward a series of propositions, the first of which is that the impulse of democracy as popular government is the pursuit of equality, and that this leads unavoidably--and has in fact led--to collectivism and oppressive totalitarianism. He presents the apprehensions of thinkers and observers who lived between 1790 and 1914 and who, in true Platonic fashion, feared the rise of totalitarian tyranny in an evolutionary or dialectical process out of the very essence of democracy. Their views are then coordinated with those of our near-contemporaries, offering the reader a cogent study in the history of ideas. The second proposition is that monarchy is a more serviceable form of government than democracy, and is likely to be more liberal. Here the author deals with the weaknesses and inherent dangers of the democratic doctrine, which are avoided or mitigated in monarchical government. The final proposition is that the political temper of historically Catholic nations is more liberal than that of Protestant nations. While the political temper of our own times dictates a new servitude of enforced equality--even alongside the ideal of negative freedom--arbitrary equality, writes Kuehnelt-Leddihn, is a natural impossibility. Complete liberty is likewise an unnatural concept. While both are unnatural conceptions, there is a practical solution to this dilemma that has confounded human history. Hinted at by the author throughout, it involves both a retrieval of the best of Catholic political and social thought, as well as the observance of a tested and venerable program of action: in necessities unity; in doubtful things liberty; in everything charity.
Liberty Or Equality The Challenge Of Our Time
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Author : Erik Von 1909- Kuehnelt-Leddihn
language : en
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Release Date : 2021-09-09
Liberty Or Equality The Challenge Of Our Time written by Erik Von 1909- Kuehnelt-Leddihn and has been published by Hassell Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-09 with categories.
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Liberty Or Equality
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Author : Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Liberty Or Equality written by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Religion categories.
Freedom
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Author : Annelien De Dijn
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2020-08-25
Freedom written by Annelien De Dijn and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-25 with Political Science categories.
Winner of the PROSE Award An NRC Handelsblad Best Book of the Year “Ambitious and impressive...At a time when the very survival of both freedom and democracy seems uncertain, books like this are more important than ever.” —The Nation “Helps explain how partisans on both the right and the left can claim to be protectors of liberty, yet hold radically different understandings of its meaning...This deeply informed history of an idea has the potential to combat political polarization.” —Publishers Weekly “Ambitious and bold, this book will have an enormous impact on how we think about the place of freedom in the Western tradition.” —Samuel Moyn, author of Not Enough “Brings remarkable clarity to a big and messy subject...New insights and hard-hitting conclusions about the resistance to democracy make this essential reading for anyone interested in the roots of our current dilemmas.” —Lynn Hunt, author of History: Why It Matters For centuries people in the West identified freedom with the ability to exercise control over the way in which they were governed. The equation of liberty with restraints on state power—what most people today associate with freedom—was a deliberate and dramatic rupture with long-established ways of thinking. So what triggered this fateful reversal? In a masterful and surprising reappraisal of more than two thousand years of Western thinking about freedom, Annelien de Dijn argues that this was not the natural outcome of such secular trends as the growth of religious tolerance or the creation of market societies. Rather, it was propelled by an antidemocratic backlash following the French and American Revolutions. The notion that freedom is best preserved by shrinking the sphere of government was not invented by the revolutionaries who created our modern democracies—it was first conceived by their critics and opponents. De Dijn shows that far from following in the path of early American patriots, today’s critics of “big government” owe more to the counterrevolutionaries who tried to undo their work.
Leftism From De Sade And Marx To Hitler And Marcuse
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Author : Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Leftism From De Sade And Marx To Hitler And Marcuse written by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Political Science categories.
Liberty Equality Fraternity
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Author : James Fitzjames Stephen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1873
Liberty Equality Fraternity written by James Fitzjames Stephen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1873 with Equality categories.
On Liberty
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Author : John Stuart Mill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
On Liberty written by John Stuart Mill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with Liberty categories.
Liberty Defined
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Author : Ron Paul
language : en
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Release Date : 2011-04-19
Liberty Defined written by Ron Paul and has been published by Grand Central Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-19 with Political Science categories.
In Liberty Defined, congressman and #1 New York Times bestselling author Ron Paul returns with his most provocative, comprehensive, and compelling arguments for personal freedom to date. The term "Liberty" is so commonly used in our country that it has become a mere cliché. But do we know what it means? What it promises? How it factors into our daily lives? And most importantly, can we recognize tyranny when it is sold to us disguised as a form of liberty? Dr. Paul writes that to believe in liberty is not to believe in any particular social and economic outcome. It is to trust in the spontaneous order that emerges when the state does not intervene in human volition and human cooperation. It permits people to work out their problems for themselves, build lives for themselves, take risks and accept responsibility for the results, and make their own decisions. It is the seed of America. This is a comprehensive guide to Dr. Paul's position on fifty of the most important issues of our times, from Abortion to Zionism. Accessible, easy to digest, and fearless in its discussion of controversial topics, LIBERTY DEFINED sheds new light on a word that is losing its shape.
Liberalism Versus Conservatism
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Author : François B. Gérard
language : en
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Release Date : 2000
Liberalism Versus Conservatism written by François B. Gérard and has been published by Nova Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Political Science categories.
Everyone eschews labels yet we all seem to posses them in the minds of legions of politicians, marketers and even the ever-peering government. We are being targeted daily by flaming liberals, left-wing liberals, right-wing conservatives, compassionate conservatives, religious conservatives and liberals, pinko liberals, middle-of-the-road liberals conservatives and liberals, pinko liberals, middle-of-the-road liberals and conservatives and of course by neoconservatives and neoliberals. The search is on for kindred souls -- the types who will open their wallets to support whatever it is the hucksters are peddling. But what to these concepts mean and do their torchbearers grasp the underlying philosophies or do they care? This bibliography lists over hundreds of entries under each category which are then indexed by title an author.