Lexington Books
Pages: 420
Trim: 7½ x 10½
978-0-7391-8670-1 • Hardback • February 2015 • $180.00 • (£138.00)
978-0-7391-8671-8 • eBook • February 2015 • $171.00 • (£133.00)
Stuart K. Hayashi worked as an analyst and aide at the Hawaii State Capitol in both legislative houses.
Part I: Stalking Social Darwinism
Chapter 1: Did Nineteenth-Century Capitalists Want the Poor to Die?
Chapter 2: The Conflation of Laissez Faire with Regulation-Imposed Eugenics
Chapter 3: The Equivocation That Infects Intellectuals
Chapter 4: The Camouflaging of Eugenicists as Eugenicism’s Opponents
Chapter 5: Progressivism: The Genesis of Eugenics
Part II: The Governism of the Third Reich
Chapter 6: Is Naziism the Final Stage of Capitalism?
Chapter 7: Socialism and Fascism: Close Relatives
Chapter 8: The Führer versus Free Enterprise
Chapter 9: They Loved Blood and Soil but Not the Mind
Chapter 10: Extinction of the Social Darwinism Canard
Part III: The Final Lessons of Liberty
Chapter 11: The Ethologists’ Unpaid Debts to Spencer and Sumner
Chapter 12: Overthrowing the Anarchists
Chapter 13: Natural Liberty Requires Adherence to Truth
Conclusion
In this ambitious work, Stuart Hayashi clearly, systematically, and accessibly articulates the secular, philosophical, and moral foundations of a free society based on the supremacy of individual rights in which each person has the opportunity to pursue his flourishing and happiness. The author explains these foundations in language that will be understandable to educated laypersons, college students, and concerned citizens who follow current political issues covered by the media. While discussing the compatibility of human nature and individual rights, he makes a compelling and unprecedented argument that particular theories from the field of evolutionary psychology are congruent with Objectivism’s views on human nature, individual rights, morality, social relationships, and the nature and rules of a proper government (i.e., a limited night watchman state). Hayashi’s book is a masterful feat of intellectual integration from various disciplines that builds on the work of Ayn Rand and other intellectual giants, past and present.
— Edward W. Younkins
Once again, Stuart Hayashi has composed a tome of epic scholarly proportions. Anyone interested in studying the fundamental dissimilarity of laissez-faire policies and Social Darwinist principles must read this book.
— Andrew Bernstein, author of The Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, Economic and Philosophic Case for Laissez-Faire