Liberty: God's Gift to Humanity

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Lexington Books, 2006 - 285 páginas
Liberty: God's Gift to Humanity is a defense of liberalism, the political philosophy which holds that governments should be established for the protection of individual liberty. By means of revisiting the thinking of the men who created liberal theory over the past three centuries, author Chana Cox has demonstrated that historically the bond between liberalism and religion has been strong and that liberals have embraced virtue, encouraged social control, and increased the common good.

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Introduction
1
The Birth of a Principle All Gods People Are Become Prophets
11
On Hobbes and the New Science of Government
35
John Locke Absolute Liberty Just and True Liberty Equal and Impartial Liberty
59
Hobbes Locke and the Critics
87
Eighteenth Century Men and Not Angels
115
Adam Smith and the New Science of Freedom Smiths Methodology
135
Individual Liberty Meets Free Market Capitalism
157
The Nineteenth Century Individualism Unbound
181
The Twentieth Century
209
And Beyond
229
Notes
237
Bibliography
275
Index
283
About the Author
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Chana B. Cox is a Senior Lecturer in the Humanities at Lewis and Clark College.

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