Liberty: God's Gift to HumanityLiberty: 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. |
Contents
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 |
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About the Author | |
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