Lexington Books
Pages: 144
Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-0-7391-0622-8 • Hardback • July 2003 • $101.00 • (£78.00)
978-0-7391-0668-6 • Paperback • July 2003 • $51.99 • (£40.00)
978-0-7391-5840-1 • eBook • July 2003 • $49.00 • (£38.00)
Samuel Gregg is the Director of Research at the Acton Institute and the author of several books on morality, economics, politlcs and philosophy. He is the editor of Lexington's Studies in Ethics and Economics series.
Chapter 1 The Case for Liberty
Chapter 2 Contra Ratio: John Stuart Mill
Chapter 3 The Drama of Human Freedom
Chapter 4 Law and Liberty
Chapter 5 Whither the State?
Chapter 6 Little Platoons
Chapter 7 Reflections of a Catholic Whig
The book is well written and from the author's Australian pen flows an elegant style. . . . A final word about this edition of the book, it only merits praise.....
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This concise introduction to the principles of the free society provides a welcome antidote to the unreflective relativism that dominates important currents of contemporary academic moral and political philosophy. Samuel Gregg's elegantly written treatiseis in the best conservative liberal tradition and is studded with revealing quotations from the likes of Burke, Tocqueville, Guizot, and Ropke. In the spirit of his great predecessors, Gregg's book combines genuine attachment to personal and political liberty with an equally fulsome appreciation of the ends or purposes that inform a freedom worthy of man...
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Anyone who wants to be informed on what is at stake in current policy discussions of liberty, no matter whether they occur in a local tavern or on the floor of the United States Supreme Court, should read On Ordered Liberty>
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