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Ignorance and Liberty

Author : Lorenzo Infantino
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134450273
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Ignorance and Liberty written by Lorenzo Infantino and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those with a belief in open society base the demand for liberty on the recognition of human ignorance; we need to be free because we are ignorant and fallible. Free social cooperation permits us to mobilize our knowledge and develop methods of discovery through which we can explore the unknown and continually correct our errors. To assent to free cooperation is to accept critical discussion, democracy and the market and in this way we are able to increase our rationality and further political and economic development. Improvement in the conditions of our lives, therefore, does not come from the omniscience attributed to some enlightened legislator or planner. Ignorance and Liberty examines how the market is a place which liberates us from this idea of a privileged source of knowledge. The market is not only a place where goods are exchanged but also where different philosophical ideas and religious beliefs must co-habit, opening up new horizons and undermining the sense of an absolute that prevails in a closed world.

Democracy and Political Ignorance

Author : Ilya Somin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804789312
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Political Ignorance written by Ilya Somin and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the biggest problems with modern democracy is that most of the public is usually ignorant of politics and government. Often, many people understand that their votes are unlikely to change the outcome of an election and don't see the point in learning much about politics. This may be rational, but it creates a nation of people with little political knowledge and little ability to objectively evaluate what they do know. In Democracy and Political Ignorance, Ilya Somin mines the depths of ignorance in America and reveals the extent to which it is a major problem for democracy. Somin weighs various options for solving this problem, arguing that political ignorance is best mitigated and its effects lessened by decentralizing and limiting government. Somin provocatively argues that people make better decisions when they choose what to purchase in the market or which state or local government to live under, than when they vote at the ballot box, because they have stronger incentives to acquire relevant information and to use it wisely.

Light and Liberty

Author : Robert M. S. McDonald
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 081393236X
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Light and Liberty written by Robert M. S. McDonald and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Thomas Jefferson's status as a champion of education is widely known, the essays in Light and Liberty make clear that his efforts to enlighten fellow citizens reflected not only a love of learning but also a love of freedom. Using as a starting point Jefferson's conviction that knowledge is the basis of republican self-government, the contributors examine his educational projects not as disparate attempts to advance knowledge for its own sake but instead as a result of his unyielding, almost obsessive desire to bolster Americans' republican virtues and values. Whether by establishing schools or through broader, extra-institutional efforts to disseminate knowledge, Jefferson's endeavors embraced his vision for a dynamic and meritocratic America. He aimed not only to provide Americans with the ability to govern themselves and participate in the government of others but also to influence Americans to remake their society in accordance with his own principles. Written in clear and accessible prose, Light and Liberty reveals the startling diversity of Jefferson's attempts to rid citizens of the ignorance and vice that, in the view of Jefferson and many contemporaries, had corroded and corrupted once-great civilizations. Never wavering from his faith that "knowledge is power," Jefferson embraced an expansive understanding of education as the foundation for a republic of free and responsible individuals who understood their rights and stood ready to defend them.

The Correct Decision

Author : Jamil Kazoun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Correct Decision written by Jamil Kazoun and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-22 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The content is about freedom, how it is dead on earth, killed because of the uneducated masses, flawed political systems and flawed law, which are not based on mathematics. The author shoots back, with iron-strong logic, hoping to revive freedom, and to destroy bad politics and the law.From the book: The freedom to own your child. A child is born a property of the mother, completely as part of her physical body, as an arm or leg or hair, and then for her to decide all matters. Also, all the responsibilities are hers alone. No matter how uneducated, incapable, or irresponsible she may be, the baby is hers, and the decisions and control are completely hers: To educate or not, and how to, what they eat, drink, smoke, learn, or do, etc. No government or anyone can mandate to her. Having given a woman sperm does not constitute a person becoming a parent or obligated to be one. Also, what this means is that the father has zero obligations towards the child or the mother. Zero obligations financially or otherwise. What a father does in support is out of love. So a child born is not a financial transaction for the benefit of the mother. A social welfare system of sort to f!k the men financially. If you need money for your life, get educated and get a job or learn about birth control. The mother decides who the parents are. She or they, not the government, decide the age of child maturity. Do not allow or make the government or society play the role of a mother and father. They are not. At least do not make them mine. If you need a mother and a father to tell you what to do, go find your mother or father, or get adopted.

Crusade Against Ignorance

Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Crusade Against Ignorance written by Thomas Jefferson and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Theory of Justice

Author : John RAWLS
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674042603
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book A Theory of Justice written by John RAWLS and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the revised edition of A Theory of Justice, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawls's view, so much of the extensive literature on Rawls's theory refers to the first edition. This reissue makes the first edition once again available for scholars and serious students of Rawls's work.

Illiberal Justice

Author : David Lewis Schaefer
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826216846
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Illiberal Justice written by David Lewis Schaefer and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Schaefer challenges John Rawls's practically sacrosanct status among scholars of political theory, law, and ethics by demonstrating how Rawls's teachings deviate from the core tradition of American constitutional liberalism toward libertarianism"--Provided by publisher.

Ignorance, Arrogance, and Apathy

Author : Wayne L. Shields
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 9781498455183
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (551 download)

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Download or read book Ignorance, Arrogance, and Apathy written by Wayne L. Shields and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have "We the People" of the United States become the most manipulated people in the world? Do our Government, Mass Media, and Education System teach us a revised history that causes us to believe the scenarios of U.S. history they want us to believe? Whether by omission or directly using lies or revised history have "We the People" lost the true depth and meaning of History as it actually happen? Are we now believing the false narratives we have been told all our lives? Do we no longer understand the sacrifices made by the Founding Fathers and the many who have died for our freedom throughout the history of these United States of America? Can we actually tell the true story and have it told to all the People or will the Government, Mass Media and our Education System refuse to broadcast or teach it? Are we being taught or indoctrinated? Are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness no more real than Santa Claus? Are those in Government buying Elections by Government give away programs? Or are those in Government winning elections by allowing "free benefits" to illegal residents? Is Government creating right for some people and neglecting those of other people? If the Government is the one creating "rights" is it true they can also take away our "rights"? Are "We the People" going to listen to a Government that lies, cheats and steals our "Rights" away? Are "We the People" going to listen to someone in Government, the Media, or Academia telling us what the Founding Fathers meant by what they said or are "We the People," smart enough to read it and understand the meaning for ourselves? Does the Constitution say, "We the People" are to be the sovereign power of these United States? If so, is it the Government who is in rebellion and not the "We the People"?"

Light and Liberty

Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0812974328
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Light and Liberty written by Thomas Jefferson and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2005-06-14 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Were Thomas Jefferson alive to read this book, he would recognize every sentence, every elegant turn of phrase, every lofty, beautifully expressed idea. Indeed, every word in the book is his. In an astonishing feat of editing, Eric S. Petersen has culled the entirety of Thomas Jefferson’s published works to fashion thirty-four original essays on themes ranging from patriotism and liberty to hope, humility, and gratitude. The result is a lucid, inspiring distillation of the wisdom of one of America’s greatest political thinkers. From his personal motto—“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God”—to his resounding discourse on “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” in the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson defined the essential truth of the American spirit. In the essays that Petersen has crafted from letters, speeches, and public documents, Jefferson’s unique moral philosophy and vision shine through. Among the hundreds of magnificent sentences gathered in this volume, here are Jefferson’s pronouncements on Gratitude: “I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations— to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements and under all circumstances, to be open and generous.” Religion: “A concern purely between our God and our consciences.” America’s national character: “It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate; to surmount every difficulty with resolution and contrivance.” Public debt: “We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves.” War: “I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.” In stately measured cadences, these thirty-four essays provide timeless guidance on leading a spiritually fulfilling life. Light and Liberty is a triumphant work of supreme eloquence, as uplifting today as when Jefferson first set these immortal sentences on paper.

Ignorance

Author : Stuart Firestein
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199828075
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Ignorance written by Stuart Firestein and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to the popular view of science as a mountainous accumulation of facts and data, Stuart Firestein takes the novel perspective that ignorance is the main product and driving force of science, and that this is the best way to understand the process of scientific discovery.

Power Without Knowledge

Author : Jeffrey Friedman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190877170
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Power Without Knowledge written by Jeffrey Friedman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technocrats claim to know how to solve the social and economic problems of complex modern societies. But as Jeffrey Friedman argues in Power without Knowledge, there is a fundamental flaw with technocracy: it requires an ability to predict how the people whom technocrats attempt to control will act in response to technocratic policies. However, the mass public's ideas-the ideas that drive their actions-are far too varied and diverse to be reliably predicted. But that is not the only problem. Friedman reminds us that a large part of contemporary mass politics, even populist mass politics, is essentially technocratic too. Members of the general public often assume that they are competent to decide which policies or politicians will be able to solve social and economic problems. Yet these ordinary "citizen-technocrats" typically regard the solutions to social problems as self-evident, such that politics becomes a matter of vetting public officials for their good intentions and strong wills, not their technocratic expertise. Finally, Friedman argues that technocratic experts themselves drastically oversimplify technocratic realities. Economists, for example, theorize that people respond rationally to the incentives they face. This theory is simplistic, but it gives the appearance of being able to predict people's behavior in response to technocratic policy initiatives. If stripped of such gross oversimplications, though, technocrats themselves would be forced to admit that a rational technocracy is nothing more than an impossible dream. Ranging widely over the philosophy of social science, rational choice theory, and empirical political science, Power without Knowledge is a pathbreaking work that upends traditional assumptions about technocracy and politics, forcing us to rethink our assumptions about the legitimacy of modern governance.

The Liberty Book

Author : John Bona
Publisher : BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC
ISBN 13 : 1424552907
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book The Liberty Book written by John Bona and published by BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: News reports bring to our ears daily stories of further intrusion in our lives and increased regulations too many to number. America is losing its heritage of God-given freedoms, which were originally derived from biblical teaching. We sense that our well-sung liberties are being lost to a point of no return. The Liberty Book examines the Christian roots of liberty, idolatry, taxation, foundations for freedom, the right to bear arms, the great freedom documents in history, pro-life and liberty, land rights, social involvement, and more. With God’s help freedom can be revived. We must all work to pull America back from the cliffs-edge fall into tyranny. Our nation is again in search of genuine liberty under God. Discover what Bible-based liberty looks like and how it can be won for you and your children.

Patriotism ...

Author : Robert Stanley Bennett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patriotism ... written by Robert Stanley Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Democracy and Liberty

Author : William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Liberty written by William Edward Hartpole Lecky and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon

Author : Jon Mandle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316193985
Total Pages : 1112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon written by Jon Mandle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Rawls is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has permanently shaped the nature and terms of moral and political philosophy, deploying a robust and specialized vocabulary that reaches beyond philosophy to political science, economics, sociology, and law. This volume is a complete and accessible guide to Rawls' vocabulary, with over 200 alphabetical encyclopaedic entries written by the world's leading Rawls scholars. From 'basic structure' to 'burdened society', from 'Sidgwick' to 'strains of commitment', and from 'Nash point' to 'natural duties', the volume covers the entirety of Rawls' central ideas and terminology, with illuminating detail and careful cross-referencing. It will be an essential resource for students and scholars of Rawls, as well as for other readers in political philosophy, ethics, political science, sociology, international relations and law.

Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty

Author : Mustafa Akyol
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393081974
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty written by Mustafa Akyol and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-07-18 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A delightfully original take on…the prospects for liberal democracy in the broader Islamic Middle East.”—Matthew Kaminski, Wall Street Journal As the Arab Spring threatens to give way to authoritarianism in Egypt and reports from Afghanistan detail widespread violence against U.S. troops and women, news from the Muslim world raises the question: Is Islam incompatible with freedom? In Islam without Extremes, Turkish columnist Mustafa Akyol answers this question by revealing the little-understood roots of political Islam, which originally included both rationalist, flexible strains and more dogmatic, rigid ones. Though the rigid traditionalists won out, Akyol points to a flourishing of liberalism in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire and the unique “Islamo-liberal synthesis” in present-day Turkey. As he powerfully asserts, only by accepting a secular state can Islamic societies thrive. Islam without Extremes offers a desperately needed intellectual basis for the reconcilability of Islam and liberty.

Rights of Man

Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Rights of Man written by Thomas Paine and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: