To commemorate the 50th anniversary of F. A. Hayek’s Nobel Prize in Economics (1974), this week Lib er tar i an ism .org will republish Hayek’s Nobel Address and Lecture (delivered December 10 and 11, 1974).

Libertarianism is rooted, historically and philosophically, in the liberalism of the Enlightenment.But although it belongs to an intellectual tradition dating back centuries, libertarianism embraces a vision of political liberty which is, even today, revolutionary.

2019年7月29日 · Liberty made great progress over hundreds of years, but the first half of the 20th century saw it in retreat. It was a time of savage war, oppression, genocide, protectionism, socialism, fascism—a time when humanity experienced the awful power of …

Paul Meany started working as the intellectual history editor at Lib er tar i an ism .org in 2019. His work focuses on liberty before liberalism, uncovering how ancient and medieval ideas influenced our modern conceptions of rights, liberty, and autonomy.

1997年1月15日 · Both the two main lines of Western thought, the Greek and the Judeo- Christian, contributed to the development of freedom. According to the Old Testament, the people of Israel lived without a king or any other coercive authority, governing themselves not by force but by their mutual adherence to their covenant with God.

2020年3月20日 · Mill opens On Liberty by explaining the nature of liberty versus authority. Traditionally, liberty was defined as “the protection against the tyranny of political rulers” (Mill 2015, p. 5) To achieve liberty, limits on state authority ought to be imposed, which would eventually lead to those in power becoming more akin to tenants than perpetual rulers.

The word liberalism refers to a distinctive set of beliefs and an associated political movement that appeared in the early 19th century.The first recorded occurrence of the term was in Spain in 1823 when the term liberales, or freedom lovers, was used to describe supporters of the constitutional regime established after the Napoleonic wars.(The liberals’ opponents, supporters of the …

2008年8月15日 · Although Isaiah Berlin is often credited with distinguishing positive from negative liberty, this view was, in fact, put forward in the 19th century by, among others, the English political philosopher T. H. Green, who provided a particularly cogent analysis of what positive liberty, or freedom, implies.

2011年11月3日 · In the first lecture in the "Exploring Liberty" series, David Boaz, the author of Libertarianism: A Primer, gives an introduction to the theory and politics of liberty.Libertarianism is the belief that each person has the right to live his life as he chooses so long as he respects the equal rights of others.

Grant Babcock is the philosophy and policy editor of Lib er tar i an ism .org and a scholar of political philosophy. He is especially interested in nonviolent action, epistemology of the social sciences, social contract theories and criticisms thereof, and finding libertarian- compatible responses to cultural problems.