The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State, and Other Essays

by Auberon Herbert, Eric Mack (Editor)

Overview

Auberon Herbert (1838–1906) is an eloquent, forceful, and uncompromising defender of liberty—indeed, in the juEAment of Richard M. Ebeling he is “one of the most important and articulate advocates of liberty in the last two hundred years.” Herbert was a major participant in the profound and wide-ranging intellectual ferment of the late Victorian age. He formulated a system of “thorough” individualism that he described as “voluntaryism.” To Herbert, “you will not make people wiser and better by taking liberty of action from them. A man can learn only when he is free to act.” As Eric Mack writes, “Carrying natural rights theory to its logical limits, Herbert demanded complete social and economic freedom for all noncoercive individuals and the radical restriction of the use of force to the role of protecting those freedoms—including the freedom of peaceful persons to withhold support from any or all state activities.” There are ten essays.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781614872153
Publisher:	Liberty Fund, Incorporated
Publication date:	10/15/1978
Series:	NONE
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	426
File size:	743 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION, by Eric Mack 11
SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY 27 ESSAY ONE
The Choices between Personal Freedom and State Protection 33 ESSAY TWO
State Education: A Help or Hindrance? 53 ESSAY THREE
A Politician in Sight of Haven 81 ESSAY FOUR
The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State 123 ESSAY FIVE
The Ethics of Dynamite 191 ESSAY SIX
Salvation by Force 227 ESSAY SEVEN
Lost in the Region of Phrases 241 ESSAY EIGHT
Mr. Spencer and the Great Machine 259 ESSAY NINE
A Plea for Voluntaryism 325 ESSAY TEN
The Principles of Voluntaryism and Free Life 369 INDEX 417